Great Endeavor

As the clock hits eight, Alexander gets himself ready to leave. He has a promise that he will return to the Winter Palace before nine o'clock in the evening and the flight time from this military base to St. Petersburg would take thirty minutes. 

Escorted by the Humvees, Alexander was daydreaming inside the Rolls Royce Phantom, imagining a time when he will get to see the first world's space launch on Ruthenian soil. 

It'll be a historic moment, especially in this era where going to space is nothing more than a fantasy. And once they do that, he's certain that the other nations would freak out, and if that happens, all hell will break loose diplomatically.