For Spider and others interested in rocketry and space

[jimmyz]

Aborted boost to the ISS could have been deadly. There are some great photos in the slideshow in the link - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... entry.html

'That was a quick flight': How astronauts kept ice cool while their rocket malfunctioned at 4,970mph and plummeted back to Earth in harrowing 7G 'ballistic re-entry' before hugging their loved-ones on the landing pad as Russia opens CRIMINAL probe".

[John Galt]

the last time there was a soyuz malfunction with a crewed launch was in the 70s. the freaking 70s

that said, there have been increasing malfunctions on non-crewed missions from russian rockets, but the russians claim they have the highest standard for crewed rockets, don't worry about it

well, this is disastrous. the soyuz is rated to stay in space for 200 days for reasons engineers and scientists come up with. that means that the current soyuz up there needs to come back by december. the first crewed launch of spaceX i think was just recently pushed back, because of scheduling reasons or something not because spacex isn't ready. either spacex needs to step up and there is an accelerated table for the test launch and then the actual launch, or the ISS will be sitting empty. well there's also SLS from boeing but i think that's just boeing being boeing and we'll see it in 2022 or something

as for the criminal probe... remember a few months ago? when it was discovered some f**k товарищ drilled a hole in the side of a russian fabricated piece of the station and closed it with super glue, causing a leak? what kind of operation they got going on ove... oh right. russian

[Spider]

Curiouser and curiouser. After they found that hole that was intentionally drilled in the Soyuz docked up at the station...eh...still haven't gotten solid answers on this. I have some small amount of paranoia about these repeated problems. On the other hand...Roscosmos isn't working on any sort of proper budget...Russia sucks. For a country so desperately proud of their old Soviet launchers...they sure do try to run the whole thing on peanuts.

Soyuz is a reliable, proven launcher. Half a century of excellent service. Eventually, shit happens. Of note, this is the first time an abort escape system has been used in manned flight. Glad nobody was killed.

Time to get some sort of emergency relief mission together for the ISS. Would suck if it had to be left unmanned, even temporarily.

[spacemonkey]