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Old October 15th 18, 05:28 AM posted to sci.space.policy
David Spain
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Default Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing of Soyuz!

On 10/15/2018 12:26 AM, David Spain wrote:
On 10/11/2018 9:19 AM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote:
"Jeff Findley"Â* wrote in message
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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.Â* Luckily it sounds
like the crew survived the ballistic reentry and landing after the upper
stage failed to start.Â* On Facebook someone said reentry G's were 6
point something.Â* 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.Â* At this point it's
reportedly NASA "paperwork" that's delaying the program!

Jeff


I've said for years, give me a comfortable lawn chair, some SCUBA
equipment and some snacks and I'd fly Cargo Dragon tomorrow.

But yeah, I can see this very quickly moving up the launches of Dragon
2 (and perhaps CST-100, but I suspect they're more constrained by
available boosters.0



Not happening, according to spokesmen for both Boeing and SpaceX.

https://spacenews.com/safety-panel-f...fety-concerns/

These companies are too smart to buck the party line and bite the hand
that feeds.

Dave




BTW. ASAP == Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel - talk about acronym abuse.

Dave