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They were 90 seconds from launch when the rocket started burning beneath them. On the night of September 26, 1983, Vladimir Titov and Gennadi Strekalov sat sealed inside their Soyuz at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, waiting to launch to the Salyut 7 space station. A faulty valve let pressurized... show more
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The rescue of Salut 7 is an amazing a wild story too!

I will have to post about that too!

Another story I highly recommend is Soyuz 23. Soyuz 23 (Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky), 16 October 1976. They aborted a docking with Salyut 5 after two days and deorbited into a blizzard. Instead of the Kazakh steppe they hit partially frozen, shallow Lake Tengiz (average depth ~2.5 m) about 8 km from shore at −22 °C, in fog and slush. The waterlogged main parachute acted as a sea anchor and rolled the capsule onto its side so the hatch and antennas were underwater in the ice/sludge. Surrounding bogs and marshes stopped amphibious vehicles; rafts were blocked by ice. Recovery took ~9 hours; crews initially assumed the men were dead. The capsule was dragged to shore rather than lifted.

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asking for cigarettes after getting ripped off an exploding rocket at 17 G is the most cosmonaut thing ever

The Soyuz has suffered a launch abort 3 times. The one shown here was on the pad. The other 2 were inflight aborts. In all 3 cases, the crew survived. That's as good as it gets.

For sure! Ya this was the only pad emergency abort I could find. I’m thinking about doing a short thing on the two in-flight escape aborts too.

IIRC, both in-flight aborts were after the LES was jettisoned. The most recent was MS-10 on Oct 11, 2018.

Thanks! I’ll have to look into those as I’m not so familiar.

And this, kids, is why you always launch with an abort system, no matter how well-proven and reliable your rocket is…

Amen

Pull 17G's to save your life? You betcha.

In researching this I learned the highest well documented (not sustained of course) was 46 Gs when a rocket sled (circa 1954) decelerated over 1.4 seconds. His eyeballs were like OUT. Guy was temporarily blind after that + broken ribs.

Titov and Strekalov remain the only crew ever saved by a launch escape tower firing for real: two seconds before the booster went up, 14g and higher, and both men flew to space again anyway. Ninety seconds from launch, and the machine kept its one promise.

It’s always the valves…

ALWAYS!

Crazy they felt like not saying anything. Sometimes a failure leads to a remarkable success. In this case, their emergency abort system. Bringing Apollo 13 home also comes to mind.

Wow that's an incredible story!

I know, right!? I love how the brass just stands there at ease. One guy scratches his neck. They’re not freaking out at all that this thing is engulfed by flames and there’s 2 guys on top of it!

Right!!! It noticed that too lmao, a downright disaster is unfolding in front of their eyes, and they seem to show absolutely no emotion whatsoever. Insane

Bet the flight crew wished they had one of these so they could save themselves:

Wow! That is scary. Redundant systems saving the day.

Like the man says, space is hard.

It’s surprising they had the launch escape system in the first place, and even more surprising a back up activation system!

That launch escape was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay later than it should've been. The whole rocket could've exploded; it's a miracle the cosmonauts survived.

I'm glad they had that escape rocket power. It saved two cosmonauts

Wow never heard of this. Amazing to see an LES actually used.

I'm glad the men survived, but the political and military poison that Russia spreads around the world means that I don't care about their space programme the way I used to.

Oficiāli tas skaitās pats īsākais kosmiskais lidojums. Nepārspēts līdz šim brīdim.

"They were also offered a shot of vodka to calm their nerves." I would have taken the shot myself and handed them the rest of the bottle!

Fascinating !
