The russians were testing manual docking where the pilot (inside the space station) used a television screen to remotely steer the capsule. On a tv screen, it's hard to tell how far away the space station was...and then the camera feed was lost. The crew had to quickly evacuate into the escape capsule while the other capsule impacted the space station. There was a pressure leak in the Spektre module, but the station was able to be saved.
Jokers are lucky they didn't end up as space jerky.
jtp0321 1 year ago
so all their personal stuff was left in vacuum until they deorbited, and then it burned up
Kargaroc286 1 year ago
The russians were testing manual docking where the pilot (inside the space station) used a television screen to remotely steer the capsule. On a tv screen, it's hard to tell how far away the space station was...and then the camera feed was lost. The crew had to quickly evacuate into the escape capsule while the other capsule impacted the space station. There was a pressure leak in the Spektre module, but the station was able to be saved.
thickstunalex 2 years ago
nice, but it did not use the main engine, just the thrusters.
joachim2464 3 years ago
Yikes!
bottomlesssoul 4 years ago