My younger brother worked at the Kennedy Space Center for years. He had daily conversations with astronauts. Those who rode home on the Soyuz told him that it was a gut-wrenching and physically abusive landing following an uncertain descent.
He also told me that the Russian side of the ISS is a cobbled mess of mostly non-functional equipment haphazardly strung together with external replacement parts designed for other purposes.
Choose your ride carefully.
In San Diego the maritime museum has a couple old submarines. One American the other Soviet. The contrast of quality was very obvious. The Soviet sub was pure junk.
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