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Old October 12th 18, 11:12 AM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley[_6_]
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Default Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing of Soyuz!

In article ,
says...

Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing for US-Russian
Space Station Crew
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer | October 11, 2018 05:11am ET
https://www.space.com/42097-soyuz-ro...expedition-57-
crew.html

Stupid Russian reliability finally bit us in the ass. Luckily it sounds
like the crew survived the ballistic reentry and landing after the upper
stage failed to start. On Facebook someone said reentry G's were 6
point something. High, but survivable.

This comes on the heels of the hole, causing air loss, that was
discovered in the orbital module of one of the Soyuz capsules docked to
ISS.

We need to fly commercial crew test flights a.s.a.p. At this point it's
reportedly NASA "paperwork" that's delaying the program!


I forgot to add, over the life of the ISS program, the Russians have had
three different Progress resupply vessels fail to make it to ISS. The
last Progress failure was an actual launch vehicle failure. But, the
Russians were quick to point out that for crewed launches they use a
different, safer, version of the Soyuz launch vehicle.

Unfortunately, a different design doesn't protect you from things like
shoddy workmanship from underpaid workers or from shoddy suppliers.

Jeff
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