Comments on: Russia: Next Soyuz manned flight likely not delayed https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-next-soyuz-manned-flight-likely-not-delayed/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom Donohue https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-next-soyuz-manned-flight-likely-not-delayed/#comment-1060499 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:16:49 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54288#comment-1060499 I just saw this Ewetoob video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMUJ004Dr8Q) posted by a gentleman named Scott Manley. He goes into some depth on Soyuz engineering and possible root cause(s) of the failed launch. For me, it shed some light on Soyuz’s booster engineering and the escape systems used for manned launches. It did leave me with one question though. Were external cameras installed on this mission that showed the booster separation event? The video has a segment which showed this event very clearly on an earlier mission. I don’t expect transparency from Roscomsos (it’s a Russian thing) but I would surely be interested is seeing that video footage.

Tom

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-next-soyuz-manned-flight-likely-not-delayed/#comment-1060496 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:07:52 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54288#comment-1060496 Richard M-
it’s actually more like this in “modern” Russia:

A Piece of the Action
“We Ain’t Playin’ For Peanuts”
https://youtu.be/P7eGdtvo85U
3:19

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-next-soyuz-manned-flight-likely-not-delayed/#comment-1060495 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 16:04:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54288#comment-1060495 Enemy at the Gates –
Nikita Khrushchev scene ( pep talk for the Commissar’s at Stalingrad )
https://youtu.be/2IQJY5SsJ64?t=51
3:21
[language alert]

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-next-soyuz-manned-flight-likely-not-delayed/#comment-1060494 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:39:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54288#comment-1060494 “Without the natural process of competition, the culture of Russia’s aerospace industry has nothing to force it to do good work.”

The obvious response to this is: They did not need competition to force them to do good work under Soviet rule. They had other impulses at work.

But of course communist ideology and flagrant use of tools of repression aren’t really options for Putin today. That leaves him with nationalist pride (also quite operative for Russia in the Cold War), and it’s obvious that this just ain’t enough to make Roscosmos a terribly competitive enterprise.

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