Crew Safe After Soyuz Launch Abort
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Published 2018-10-11
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, October 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster and the launch ascent was aborted, resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft. Search and rescue teams were deployed to the landing site. Hague and Ovchinin are out of the capsule and are reported to be in good condition.
Note: This video is edited for length, but includes the launch, the initial report of the issue, and the confirmation that the crew landed safely.
All Comments (21)
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Before y'all jump on the SpaceX bandwagon or start bashing Soyuz just keep in mind that the Soyuz probably has one of the best safety records for manned flight in space exploration history
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Glad they are safe! I watched it live and it was so bizarre...you could clearly hear the Russian flight control communicating with the crew, saying that a booster had failed, while the NASA TV commentator continued talking over it saying everything was nominal.
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Thank god the animation was fine and managed to remain nominal.
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Why does everyone thank NASA? It's Roscosmos' rocket, so you need to thank them!
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Sad the booster failed, but good job to the Roscosmos team. Obviously a great launch escape system and search and rescue team.
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Wouldn't it be nice if the space relationship between Russia and the West extended into Earthly affairs as well ?
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And here I am... screaming at a Whirlpool dishwasher for not getting my plates clean...
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As long as the crew is safe I don't see any lost, instead it's good experience to learn of it and correct any mistakes for future trips.
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I'm glad the crew is safe !
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First a hole drilled in the last Soyuz spacecraft sent to ISS, now a engine failure. The first has been ruled sabotage, is someone intentionally trying to halt US and Russian cooperation in space station? We all know space travel in inherently dangerous, but the Soyuz capsules and the rockets power stack that lifts them have a terrific record of success. Now these two back to back occurrences is a little too coincidental for me. That said, these men are VERY lucky to be still alive.
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Can't believe people complaining about the 'fake' CGI. Whoever said that it was supposed to be rendered in real-time? It's just synched with the mission plan so that we know what will be going on up there.
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Nice to hear there was no loss of life in this ever hazardous situation. Thanks Roscosmos, and all our Russian friends for designing a backup plan for these inevitable situations. Sorry for your disappointing day and I hope for better luck next time. To many commentators here, I reply with the words of someone much smarter than myself: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein (1929)
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To be an astronaut, you have to be extremely fit & resilient, extremely intelligent, extremely practical, fully in control of emotion, have an advanced knowledge of physics & applied sciences, be able to cope with the vast & deep loneliness of space/atmospherical loss, AND, be able to keep completely cool & 100% rational/functioning while facing immanent doom. I feel slightly less upset I didn't get a shot at it ;-)
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Damn. 'Ballistic Decent Mode' sounds like a whole lot of G's. Glad the crew is ok.
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Even with lunch failure the crew still safely landed back to earth. Sojus is a beast.
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Fortunately all the crew are safe, you have made a perfect job!
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Wow! Safety is indeed mandatory in this operations. I'm glad they're fine.
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Holy crap I'm barely seeing anything on the news about this but it has to be the first in flight abort of a manned spacecraft this century!
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Glad the Russians know what they're doing with their launchers. Thanks to the hard work of the engineers at the control station and those who designed the rocket, 2 people have been saved today. Good job Russia ;)
