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Unmanned Russian Soyuz Blows Up On Launch

Posted by timothy on from the what's-russian-for-nader dept.

adagioforstrings writes "CNN reports that a 300-tonne unmanned Soyuz-U launch vehicle exploded 29 seconds after take-off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk cosmodrome late on Tuesday, its blazing debris showering onto the launchpad and its blastwave killing one and injuring eight others. A modified version of this same kind of rocket will be used to carry cosmonauts to the ISS later this month."

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  1. N'Boom by suss · · Score: 5, Funny

    A modified version of this same kind of rocket will be used to carry cosmonauts to the ISS later this month

    Lance Bass still wants to go, right?

  2. Unmanned? Shew! by Aardvark99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well THANK GOD Lance Bass is safe!

  3. Re:Sabotage? by mikedaisey · · Score: 2, Funny


    Or maybe you should lay off the conspiracy crack pipe, at least until some facts make an appearence.

    i could be wrong, but NASA isn't generally known for their cutthroat international sabotage.

  4. next time... by stubear · · Score: 5, Funny

    "A modified version of this same kind of rocket will be used to carry cosmonauts to the ISS later this month."

    Let's hope they modify it to not blow up next time. I'd bet those ACME rocket plans and mail order boxes wasn't the best approach for their space program after all. Perhaps we should cut off their access to the Cartoon Network until after the manned launch.

  5. ah, here's why.. by skotte · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.russianspaceweb.com/:

    The lost Foton had been the 13th in a series launched since 1985

    ah! a logical solution: it was the unlucky 13th craft, of course.