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Phantom Driver
Great achievement indeed. How come the first we here of this is when he landed ? Media interest in Russian affairs a little lopsided these days . Soyuz comes and goes to ISS with fantastic reliability and minimal fanfare or media interest (although Tim Peake naturally warranted a major effort in UK).
Despite geopolitics, would be nice to acknowledge now and again the good things they do in the aviation and aerospace world.
Phantom Driver
Re press. We are apparently all very parochial in our outlook, and press/media seem to reflect that (or maybe they promote it as well).
Also press/media are a bit lazy or perhaps under resourced, and will report stuff if it is given to them on a plate. Maybe the support team didn't give press/media enough packaged small bites of material during flight.