Soyuz Launch Escape Tower System

[Drfusebox]

Filed under successful suborbital flight :)

[catsareweapons]

Space Travel WIN!!!

[un4g1v3n1]

Yep, accidents happen, unless they are going thousands of times further, through magnetosphere-free, deadly space radiation, landing on another body in space, and returning...IN THAT CASE, PERFECTION can be the only outcome!

RIGHT BUZZ?

Fucking space fakers!

[GRPiAKus]

NASA should did this in space shuttles, the crew of Challenger could be alive :(

But there was one obstacle - MONEY

[drbackjack]

@GRPiAKus

Dont forget weight.

[Firebirdharris]

@GRPiAKus unlikely actually, aerodynamic forces would've still ripped it to shreds, when you look at it both challenger and columbia had the same cause. The people in charge didn't listen to the engineers. Usually the FD etc asks the engineers to prove that the systems of the craft are safe. In both cases they were asked to prove the systems weren't safe and then ignored when they said no (though the challenger engineers did miss something from their presentation that might've persuaded them).

[MrBennetzen]

00:38 That Soviet General was wondering whether his neck was big enough for his noose.

[TheFunkadelicFan]

Great clip. Thanks.

[sylvainraillard]

Excellent sauvetage : Vladimir Titov doit s'en souvenir ;-)

[nosophorus]

Hey, man where is the good old music of this video? That older one is much better than the current music. That older song were much more well suited to the video. I know the video is yours, but the old hit is much better. If possible, it would be interesting to watch the same video but with the good old music. Please, pal, reupload it.

[Travellerdream]

@nosophorus Oks, that´s is not notorius but, youtube has desativate the audio because a f**** author´s rights. I reupload later, is fit better :=/

[nosophorus]

@Travellerdream OK, man! Let me know when you upload it again. Thanks for your reply! See you!

[Rocketzond5]

@nosophorus So , watch in my other channel = /watch?v=b7bDIRmNDcM ...Enjoy!

[Travellerdream]

@nosophorus Olhe esse no meu outro canal! watch?v=b7bDIRmNDcM Enjoy! :=)

[nosophorus]

@Travellerdream Thank you very very much, man!!

[wolfmankurd]

jesus that guy couldn't care less if they escaped

[tdbf2142]

Strangely enough, this is plesetsk....

[don312000]

there were two systems, landline and radio...the landline had burned thru and the launch control had to fire the abort system w/the radio. It's since been redesigned so that the crew can fire it themselves. The spectators probably didn't realize anything was wrong from that far away.

[GhostCosmonaut]

these two brave men, vladimir titov and gennady strekalov (RIP, 25-12-2004) had the RIGHT STUFF.

[Thebibs]

"Scape" Tower L0L

[don312000]

Wow I've been looking for footage of that for years! Thanks for posting it. Incidentally, both cosmonauts who went on that wild ride would later fly on space shuttle missions.

[coreyagraph]

@don312000 if i recall correctly, they hit 12+gs on the way up.

[Boy75402]

Why do the Soviet officials ... observing the rocket destroying itself while its crew are pulled from safety in the nick of time ... look bored?

[Travellerdream]

I see that cold action (reaction) from them!!! tnks...

[jonlawsb]

I think you'll find that they didn't realise that the Launch Escape system was firing. Remember the confusion by the people watching the Challenger 51L launch - they thought the vehicle breakup was just the booster staging. You wouldn't call them 'cold' would you? Remember these people were so far from the launch that they probably mistook the fire as just the launch exhaust. The Crew on-board didn't even realise that there was a fire!

[Boy75402]

Great point Jonlawsb!

[jeetendrag10acc2]

@Travellerdream they are thinking " uh-oh..stalin's gonna shoot someone tonight.."

[vava54own]

@Boy75402

They probably though it was normal...

[don312000]

@Boy75402 They were at least a mile away...in the dark it might not have looked that much different from a normal launch at first.

[Astromaster90]

@Boy75402 The fire burn through the cables that would activate the launch escape system.

[bombarderoazul]

This is amazing and it says a lot of how much safer the soyuz is, the crew of Soyuz 18a did this also, but they ejected while they were flying, they landed safely near the chinese border.

[Gatedialer]

The fact that the LES didn't fire until 20 seconds+ after the fire proves that it is not safe and just luck that the crew survived.

Having any sort of failure in the LES system is the most damning of all failures.

[rsynnott]

As I understand it, someone would have to be sure that something was wrong and trigger the thing (it would be unsafe to make it totally automatic); it is also necessary to shut down the first stage as much as possible (though this won't be an issue on Ares I, where the first stage _can't_ be shut down; the LES there is designed to operate with the first stage firing).

[Abanamat85]

So.. is the whole Ares thing still going or what? I know "Constellation" has been canceled, but they can't just cancel Ares can they? Did they?

[GhostCosmonaut]

for "bombarderoazul". the launch failure happened after the escape tower had normally separated as usual, so the soyuz 18A space engine was fired by the crew to take the vehicle away from its defective rocket. other two brave men with the RIGHT STUFF: vasily lazarev (RIP, 31-12-1990) and oleg makarov (RIP, 28-5-2003).

[MrBennetzen]

Just out of curiosity. Were Soyuz flights after ASTP but before glastnost televised live?

[joachim2464]

why did it take so long for the LES to activate?

[SparkPlugRocks]

First, the auto-abort system was burnt through. The Cosmonauts didn't know what was happening until they saw the flames out of their windows (the fire burnt throug comms). Vladmir Titov (Commander) pressed the abort button in the capsule, but nothing happened. To start in from mission control they had to press two different buttons in two different rooms. they scrambled and finally saved the crew. According to Astronautix the abort was 20Gs. I will reply again continuing this comment.

[SparkPlugRocks]

The crew was grounded due to the pressures of the 20G abort. The crew of Salyut 7 was stranded too. (i needed more than 500 chars.)

[snubbespelaren]

10 G's is a real kick too I guess.

But there is a lot of rumors circulating about this incident.

Wikipedia is written by people like ourselves - I could go there and just write that it was 3.99 G's - and it would be the "truth" until someone else changed it again.

[adventchild1001]

lucky fuckers...

[readsta77]

How cooly did that commie rupert itch his nose as the escape tower flys off into the darkness!!??

[Travellerdream]

So, and at that speed,is so brillant!!!Thks.

[JimK1rk]

Soyuz rlz!

[collapsitar]

Hey, what music is this? It fits perfectly. Moving.

[Travellerdream]

oks, is "Go" from Andy Hunter...

Is really a cool musik and a fit randomly but match perfectly!!Thanks for coments LOL...

[drsheikhjunior]

Do you mind if I put this video's link in wikipedia?

[Travellerdream]

Yes, I ´ve tried but it was not possible because the rules of these site... :=( If you , no problems!

[ranonline158]

OMG just imagine how many G's the crew experiences..

[drsheikhjunior]

21g's to be excact

[drsheikhjunior]

Correction,it was 17g's

[georgH]

I prefer that to beign burned with the rocket. Fortunately, that amount of acceleration is for very short time.

[Travellerdream]

It was six or seven seconds with that aceleration.....Imagine :)

[drsheikhjunior]

The rocket didnt just burned,it exploded

[snubbespelaren]

It was only around 10G, not a problem according to Titov (one of the cosmonauts aboard)

[HBSfromMsia]

the wikipedia said it was 17gs...i guess we should'nt trust wikipedia so much

[geckoest]

the 17 g-s are probably closer to reality. A trained pilot can cope with 10-11 g's without passing out.

and about 20 without serious health risks afterwards.