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2018-10-12 Science & Technology

Russia hopes USA will be understanding about "Soyuz" incident

Follow up to this report from yesterday.

[Al Ahram] Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday he hoped the United States would be understanding about a malfunction that occurred during a launch of the "Soyuz" spacecraft.

He was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency that manned space flights would be suspended until an investigation into the causes of the malfunction is completed.

"Soyuz" made an emergency landing near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan after its booster rockets failed in mid-air en route to the International Space Station. It had a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut on board.

Posted by Fred 2018-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 How long will it take to get another Logistics run aside the Crew? May we run two loads? but I need one up there right now. I need resupply.
Let's get food rotated now and crew when you can unless you can make another run together like this one was supposed to be.

I'm losing lots of Cargo, but By GOD, I have not lost an Astronaut yet.

Posted by newc 2018-10-12 01:06|| 2018-10-12 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Also, seeing the Crew safe was nothing to Understand, Russia.

Posted by newc 2018-10-12 01:08|| 2018-10-12 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps we should 'drill' into this one further.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-12 01:25|| 2018-10-12 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The Soyuz on station has a use by date of Jan 1, 2019. Enough said!

Posted by 3dc 2018-10-12 07:06|| 2018-10-12 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Scott Manley has a good breakdown of what happened and possible options.

I'm just glad the escape system worked (for the 3rd time).

What really infuriates me is that there is still no good option to get astronauts to the ISS except 50 year old Soviet designs.

Talk about being short sighted and hamstringing yourself...

Posted by DarthVader 2018-10-12 09:26|| 2018-10-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 SpaceX has been flying resupply for a while now. So supply is not an issue. Supposedly they should have a man-rated bird ready to go next summer.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-10-12 22:25|| 2018-10-12 22:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting find, Im going to bookmark Scott Manley

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-10-12 22:36|| 2018-10-12 22:36|| Front Page Top

00:40 Frank G