Posted on 10/11/2018 8:25:14 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Because they have to.
I hope Howard Wolowitz is ok.
#38 The Russians are going to have to build a bigger Soyuz capsule if cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin keeps adding weight....
Come and keep your comrade warm
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
Hey you don’t know how lucky you are boys
Back in the U.S.S.R.
745 launches with under two dozen mission failures since the 1960s. A 1983 manned flight required launch-escape-tower-system shortly before the booster exploded. Cosmonauts died when a capsule parachute failed and others from an inadvertent decompression incident. Majority of failures have occurred since 2010.
JAXA resupply went up last half of September.
A 1983 manned flight required launch-escape-tower-system shortly before the booster exploded.
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I read about that today. Due to fire damage, mission control was unable to abort, neither were the cosmonauts from inside the capsule. A backup radio system had to be used that required two officers to give the command within five seconds of each other. Before today it was a the only time an escape system had been used to save a crew.
Both cosmonauts went on to other missions. One flew a few times on the Shuttle.
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