LIVE Soyuz rocket blast off from Baikonur

[xxArcan96xx]

MASON! FIRE THE MISSILE NOW AND DESTROY IT!

[lolvks]

Must. not. look!!!

Must. continue. to. give. report!!

[Elaine67151]

i like an astronaut....nasa

[divantha2]

Egor piskunov was lucky enugh to be there...But wasn't lucky enugh to see the launch.

[drbackjack]

Clearly it needs more boosters.

[NeutralNegotiator]

@drbackjack Clearly it has completed successfully numerous missions so far,so it is just fine

[drbackjack]

@NeutralNegotiator

It's a joke.

[Antimoron2]

I don't understand the reporters from this channel they're all idiots. Standing next to such a beautiful rocket and they turn their backs just at the moment of the lift-off!!!!!!

[timd941]

3:42-3:51 what's the white cloud coming out of the rocket? Breaking the sound barrier? Booster separation? I don't really pat attention much to the Soyuz rockets.

[timd941]

s the bottom of it's underground is that why you can stand so close to the Soyuz rockets?

[wlmason73]

It surprised me that they gave credit to John F. Kennedy regarding the Apollo program. I highly doubt you'd see the same level of recognition for Russian achievements in space travel in United States media.

[ethancole32]

I fell like going to space but then i feel like not going to space im what if something goes wrong.

[BassGuitarGuy128]

@ethancole32

But what if something doesn't go wrong and you're praised as a national hero for being the first man on Mars!!!!

[Jasminewrestler]

Beautiful launch, but very sad enough, all reporters and, surprisingly enough also the "expert", missed all the main events...

- luckily enough someone queued the on-site reporter when the last supply pod is detached = launch is imminent

- the studio "expert" missed the condensation phenomenon at exceeding sonic speed

- the transmission was broken just before the spectacular detachment of the four boosters - leaving out the "Korolev Cross", one of the most beautiful sights in rocketry!

[gstanz67]

got 1:45 to see listen how they are able to stand so close to the Rocket during liftoff....Still crazy if you ask me. If that thing explodes they are going to have molten, flaming hunks of metal and debris raining down on them. Russians dont give a fuck....one less to feed as far as they are concerned.

[RealNarod28]

@gstanz67 You really need to fuck this up? can you just be happy for people who going to space on that rocket and for people who watched it on site. I bet its beautiful to watch from that distance. But no, you need to find negative things in this moments, you need say that we dont give a fuck and all that... can you just relax and watch fucking video?

[sandustanBrasov]

SandustanBrasov

The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov

I had thinked a proposal of realisation to one universal vehicle, good on Earth but and in cosmos. The source of energy is a thermonuclear controlled reactor, and the traction is realized through a set of reactive electromagnetic motors. The realization of these, impose a revision and elucidation to some parts from the actual science, which is strangled of the theoretical physics with a series of metaphysical laws and principles.

[slykrome]

fast & efficient.. nice launch guyz !!

[slykrome]

bcuz their technology has long surpassed ours.. thats how !!

[Yougimpytube]

How is he allowed to stand so close?

[gstanz67]

@Yougimpytube If you listened to the reporter he explains how...The exhaust is directed from underground and shot out the front...watch where the exhaust is directed. Plus its nowhere near as big as our shuttles so smaller rockets are used. Look at the astronauts inside the capsule...looks like the old Apoolo missions of the 60's. But you got to give them an A for ingenuity to stay in the space race with the limited funds they have had. They need to just print more money like USA does...lol..sad

[ITSbigwillystyle]

"SHIT! Mason, go to plan B, shoot it down with the valkyrie!"

[mindlessprimitive]

u get to blow one of these up in black ops. : )

[ze4th0x]

@mindlessprimitive oh boy... -.-

[depaulsto]

How long will the Soyuz space program last and will it ever evolve into the commercial suborbital market like Virgin Galactic?

[aerowenn]

Man... I want to see this in person, Soyuz rockets are badass. 

[racookster]

I love the stuffed toy hanging in the capsule! It's their freefall indicator! That's so freaking cute!

[copehaha]

@racookster It used to be, back in the cold war. Now its only

tradition to carry the toy on each launch.

[racookster]

@copehaha I'm surprised I didn't actually say that. I knew it was just tradition now, but it's still cute.

[Darkonomist]

RT reporters are so great and lively! Nice job Egor!

[oxforduniversity]

That would be the Russian Buran space shuttle will take over the NASA program, Russian government is reconsidering it now.

[peepeevagi]

A farm? Better be a cherry Orchard.

Grow some Marijuana around the Cherry trees. It'll keep pests away from the trees themselves XD

[mengwise36]

@electricblue7

Totally. I thought you were one of those people who think we should stay on Earth forever.

[Bigls11]

Уже лет восемь основная нагрузка по обеспечению космической станции лежит на российской космонавтике. Мир должен быть нам благодарен.

[Rezan1991]

Nice video :D

[14842]

Haha Egor piskunov gets all the cool stuff to report XD, this is really awesome to see it happen live, amazing rocket launched. good job guys:)

ps. the new comment system on youtube is hella annoying me...

[pokerhandof5jokers]

honestly...he is rather close...there is always a chance of rocket malfunction on lift off...even total detonation and destruction on the launch pad...he should be wearing a helmet and flack vest...and put wall of clear plastic arround him...

[cwm747]

Great Video very imformative, NASA TV didnt seem to air much of this launch. I enjoyed the cockpit view while in the Soyuz was in launch, this is the first time for me to see this inside view, hope they do alot more in the future.. Also the guy near the launch site Thanks for your up close video of the launch...Freakin AWESOME!

[courtenai1536]

Shouldnt he have been wearing earplugs and standing behind a shield? That is a massive rocket launching near his person.

[TTok33]

какой нах спАтник? зачем язык коверкать на пидосовский манер?

[6americanflagsonmoon]

interkosmos-usa...we are all cosmonauts now..."$ no bucks no buck rogers!"...well we may have to learn to become american cosmonauts for a few years...(we should be on the moon and mars...1961-2010 is 50 years of the space age!...this rocket is nearly identical to vostok-1)

[Sturmpionier03]

Send Barry Soetoro to space

[ararat123457]

fire that idiot. he blocked the view . the only reason he was there to start with. nobody cares about your stupid story . we just want to see the rocket go.

[jamesskull2000]

this is boring

[AlexanderSigal]

that guy WTF lol!!!! "tell us about astronauts" . "This is amazing... this is really fun to watch this twelve story thing flying up in the air" wtf???

[resistance712]

That rocket is huge or he is standing next to it.

[mam16cm]

@resistance712 @ 50,67 m hight

[maksphoto78]

Piss, can of, indeed.

[maksphoto78]

Russia Today, tell them to stop talking and let them and us enjoy the moment of take off!

[IronManu77]

She seemed like she was about to crack up after saying Igor PISSkanov in the beginning and at the end. lmao :o

[greedyfoot]

He missed the take-off, to busy looking at the camera.

[Andymakov]

scary )

[4txx]

2:30-2:50 so awesome

[flyhead2]

I'm amazed at how close the reporter was to the launch site. I would have thought that the safety perameter would have been far larger. The US exploration programme cannot exist when the manufacturing base of the US has been sent offshore, and the primary military objectives have probably been met (outsourced?). It'll be interesting to see if anyone can design a space vehicle in which humans can survive the roasting from radiation. It would be an achievement if we could put a man on the moon.

[IceFritzLanger]

They bring a girl with them, wahou!!, hope they got plenty of condoms =))

[mengwise36]

@electricblue7

I feel sad for you.

[spacemanspiffcumshot]

interkosmos-usa...(boys get out those old juno-5-saturn-1 rocket blueprints...with 3 man apollo capsule)

[usastrikefromspace1]

yes! interkosmos-usa...id rather be a cosmonaut playing chess in orbit...than a muslim terrorist in a birka!

[6americanflagsonmoon]

usaf delta-4-heavy rocket is man rated for covert military astronauts...nasa is forbidden to use it...so president pigmy cut the nasa $ to spend on watermelons for vodoo haiti.../ @ wisconsin

[6americanflagsonmoon]

5,000,000 stars!...thankyou rt for excellent space program coverage...wow!...interkosmos-­usa...we are all cosmonauts now! ( 50 million $ ticket for americans)

[peepeevagi]

This makes me smile :D

I imagine the american guy feels rather akward. XD

[MojaveDan]

@peepeevagi it's an American GIRL and she's a hottie to boot.

[peepeevagi]

Well i imagine she felt kinda akward.

In fact, unless she can speak russian and has a penis, i am sure of it.

[HerrMoppel]

goog luck!

[AlvaroAndfriends]

That's pretty awesome too bad Obama will probably halt space travel for the U.S.

Tisk Tisk Obama space is for everybody to explore.

[flyhead2]

@AlvaroAndfriends

Explored or militarised?

[gentoodaemon]

Russia and America, together at last

[MrXstacey]

3 people being launched, one is american. did the US pay one third of the cost?

[xBloodXGusherx]

IT would have been nice to just show us the dam launch...

[CarstenOepping]

hhhhhhmmmmmmm next time please without a commentator! or take one with over 50 years old! because they dont talk so much like this nervous child.