re: My statistical challenge didn't hold up, but...
I'm an admirier of achievers, and of truth -- and have always found much to admire, and to criticize, in the russian program and the US programs...
And you are still wrong about the soft-landing engines on the Soyuz parachute shrouds.
My point was, for such a smart-aleck smarmy sneery post, your message was so full of factual errors, it became a self-parody of the bias you were championing.