Manned Soyuz malfunction

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This afternoons crewed Soyuz flight to the ISS went badly wrong during the first part of the climbout - the escape rocket was activated when the booster malfunctiones. The crew capsule made a safe landing

Astronauts escape malfunctioning rocket
 

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"Statistically", something like that was going to happen "sometime" - well, thank goodness, at least the emergency backup system did actually work as intended.
 

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From what I can see its the first in flight abort of a manned Soyuz since 1975. Thats pretty good going.
 

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"Statistics say" "if it can happen then it might well do so at some time (TBD)" - from an ex-defence and civilian safety engineer. "That said" history is on the side of the Russians ATM (but remembering Challenger and so on, on the US side:rolleyes:).
 
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So other then the Chinese, and I don't know when they may go for it again, no one has any way to get to the space station right now.

We should have had something in place and up and running before we shut down the shuttle program, bad planning.
 

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That's most certainly true - "all your eggs in one basket"!

Hopefully the Russians will find and sort the problen(s) that caused today's abort before the supplies situation on the station become anywhere near critical.
 

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Supplies arent a problem - other carriers are available - the Dragon for starters. And at the end of the day they can always send up unmanned Soyuz missions - losing a few tons of cargo due to a similar abort isnt a major disaster.
 

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The Indians aren't too far behind in getting stuff off the ground into lowish orbit.
 

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The Indians aren't too far behind in getting stuff off the ground into lowish orbit.
You cannot get much in the way of supplies on a flying carpet:rolleyes:
 
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