Soyuz rocket failure

[red_slr]

News coming through that a Soyuz has failed during launch. These are manned flights so quite a big problem!
Reports state that the 2 on board have survived as there was no explosion and they carried out a controlled abort of the flight at some considerable distance from launch. SAR are on their way.

[red_slr]

They are reporting they are alive. Amazing. I am sure the footage will come through later but its reported they were over 45km up when they had to return.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Conspiracy chat rooms are already speculating what other reasons there may be!

It's aliens too close to the ISS

Lets hope they are OK.

[Eric Mc]

There are two threads running already covering this in the "Science" forum.

For those interested in spaceflight, it generally gets covered quite well over there.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Simpo Two]

red_slr said:

SAR are on their way.

Anyone else have the 'Thunderbirds' theme tune going through their heads?

[red_slr]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Conspiracy chat rooms are already speculating what other reasons there may be!

It's aliens too close to the ISS

Lets hope they are OK.

It is strange, first failure in 40 years.

[Eric Mc]

Not really. It's the first failure of the rocket when carrying a Soyuz spacecraft since 1983. But there have been quite a few failures of this rocket when carrying other payloads - including the Progress supply craft, which is effectively a Soyuz kitted out for cargo rather than humans.

It looks like the failure was in the booster - not the Soyuz spacecraft.

[Caruso]

A well informed news video on the incident with Chris Hadfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeMxbFpcsa4

[Scrump]

Eric Mc said:

There are two threads running already covering this in the "Science" forum.

For those interested in spaceflight, it generally gets covered quite well over there.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Agreed