Two astronauts have miraculously survived the crash landing of the Russian spacecraft
Soyuz.
Russia is investigating the malfunction of their spacecraft after the booster on the
rocket broke at 164 thousand feet, and the rocket automatically turned back and commenced
a ballistic re entry to earth.
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The recent flight of russias Soyuz spacecraft lasted only 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
At that point, the astronauts inside the spacecraft were experiencing weightlessness., but normally
during a rocket launch the force from the rocket surging upward should have pinned them
to their seats.
That’s when the astronauts realized something was terribly wrong.
The astronauts Aleksey Ovhinin And American Nick Hague were on their way to the international
space station when the malfunction occurred.
They were supposed to spend 6 months aboard the iss, and their first spacewalk was scheduled
for October 19th and 25th.
They were supposed to replace batteries.
90 seconds into the launch, nasa reported on their livestream that there was a problem
with the booster rocket between the first and second stages of the separation.
There was actually footage of the astronauts inside the spacecraft being shaken around
the moment that the malfunction happened.
Back in 1986, the 1986 challenger disaster resulted in 7 deaths following a booster malfunction.
The catastrophe was witnessed by 65 million americans and to this day its still one of
the deadliest space catastrophies ever.
but miraculously, the Soyuz astronauts survived.
Fortunately, the space craft’s reached a good height and the landing engines and parachutes
were working properly, despite the fact that the spacecraft’s ballistic decent.
A ballistic decent is where a spacecraft decends at a sharper anger than normal.
The force from this ballistic decent was enourmous.
But the astronauts kept their cool.
They crash landed in a space capsule that landed on the Kazakh steppe on Thursday.
Rescuers ran to he;p the stranded astronauts.
The astroauts are reportedly in good condition, according to nasa.
But since 2010, 21 out of the 745 Soyuz rocket launches have failed, which is like, that’s
actually a pretty high percentage when people’s lives are at stake.
Is this rocket reliable enough to put the lives of astronauts at risk?
I don’t know man.
Soyuz is one of the oldest rocket designs but its supposed to be one of the safest there
is.
But right now there is a lot of talk about whether or not the Russian space industry
can keep up standards.
Its clear newer, safer rockets need to be produced.
That being said, this is the first malfunction of a Soyuz rocket since 1983, and in general,
space mission fatalities are pretty rare.
So far there have only been 21 deaths in history.
At this time, the Russians have suspended all flights to the space station, and its
like that all rocket flights will be suspended for the time being across the world thanks
to this disaster.
That’s pretty troubling because at this time, the Soyuz is the only way that people
can get to the ISS right now.
Officials say that the people who are already up there have enough supplies.
Russia says they are investigating the malfunction of the rocket.
This comes only a few weeks after a hole was discovered in the Russian section of the international
space station, which Russia said may have been drilled deliberately.
The exact reason why the malfunction failed is being investigated.
As for the batteries that were supposed to be replaced at the international space station,
a nasa spokesperson says they don’t know what they are going to do at this time.
The astronauts aboard the iss that are supposed to return to earth in December might have
to sit tight because its likely that all space missions will be delayed after this malfunction.
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