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| BBC: Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz launcher |
| 2018-10-11 |
| Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are reported to be "in good condition", both Nasa and Russian media said. Search and rescue teams are now en route to the landing site. The rocket had taken off for the International Space Station (ISS) when it suffered a problem with its booster. The crew had to return in "ballistic descent mode", Nasa tweeted, which it explained was "a sharper angle of landing compared to normal". Supposedly an 8g decelleration rate when that happens. Don't feel like any editorial comments for now. I have to get to werk, the curse of the blogging class. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #3 8G decent. That is twice as fast as my 4G phone! |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-11 15:56 |
| #2 'To the vodka bar!' Thankfully, only the one malfunction. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-10-11 15:29 |
| #1 Space crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-11 11:35 |