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A Cosmonaut Is Demoted And Russia’s Star-Crossed Space Agency Lurches. Again.
There was the mysterious man-made hole that appeared in a Russian-built module of the International Space Station. There was the satellite-carrying rocket that failed because it was mistakenly programmed as if it were blasting off 6,200 kilometers to the west. There was the emergency landing following the unsuccessful launch of a rocket carrying a Russian and an American aboard a Soyuz capsule. There was the report that $400 million went missing last year.
Now add this to the litany of woes roiling Russia’s space agency: A respected former cosmonaut was demoted last month, reportedly after he questioned the agency’s decision to let a major Russian action movie be shot on the orbital station. The move prompted unusual public pushback from Russia’s professional cosmonaut corps.