Soyuz bounces back after failure: Crewed mission to Space Station launches early next month

Soyuz bounces back after failure: Crewed mission to Space Station launches early next month

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/soyuz-bounces-back-after-failure-crewed-mission-to-space-station-launches-early-next-month/

The high profile but fortunately non-lethal failure of a crewed mission atop a Soyuz rocket in October has been investigated thoroughly enough that American, European, and Russian space agencies are willing to ride aboard the venerable launch system. Roscosmos announced that a crewed mission will fly to the International Space Station on December 3, less than two months after the anomaly.

It was clear from the moment of the accident, from which Astronaut Nick Hague and Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin drifted down to a safe landing, that whatever the global space community decided to do, they needed to do it fast. Soyuz is the only rated and tested crew launch system out there, and if it were to be grounded for long the ISS would soon be untenanted.