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Old October 12th, 2018 #2
Ray Allan
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This is why manned space vehicles have launch abort systems. In 51 years of service, this marks the third launch abort of a Soyuz spacecraft, after Soyuz 18-A in 1975 and Soyuz T-10-1 in 1983. With Soyuz MS-10 the booster failure happened shortly after the launch escape tower sitting atop the Soyuz was jettisoned per normal procedure at that particular point in the launch and the Soyuz's own rockets were used to separate from the booster and the Soyuz Descent Module containing the crew made an emergency re-entry and landing, which the crew trained for as part of their regular training for their mission. The crew presently aboard the International Space Station will probably have their mission extended and the Soyuz FG booster rocket grounded until the Russian federal space agency, Roskosmos, can figure out what went wrong and re-certify it for flight before the next mission to ISS, Soyuz MS-11, scheduled for December, can fly. Hopefully by late 2019, NASA astronauts can fly to ISS on two American-built spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon 2 and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsules.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018...aunch-station/

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Last edited by Ray Allan; October 12th, 2018 at 02:16 AM.