For anyone who is interested in successful ejector seat WINS, and saving the day and lives and so on, there is a pretty good read in
" Leaving Earth " by Robert Zimmerman:
Ninety seconds before blast-off, with Titov and Strekalov waiting at the top of their fully-fueled Soyuz rocket, a fuel valve at the base of the rocket malfunctioned, opening and spilling fuel uncontrollably onto the launchpad. A fire broke out and flames engulfed the rocket with its 180 tons of very flammable fuel. At that moment, the automatic launch-escape system should had kicked in, executing the following steps: First, explosive bolts fire, flinging the Soyuz T capsule free of the three-stage rocket. One second later, solid-fuel engines in a tower attached to the top of the capsule ignite, lifting the Soyuz T orbital module and descent module away and clear. Five seconds after that, more explosive bolts fire to separate the manned descent module from everything else. Its parachutes then release and its retro-rockets fire, slowing the capsule enough for a safe landing.
The automatic launch-escape system did not kick in, however. The fire had burned the system’s wiring, preventing it from being activated automatically. Feeling strange vibrations and seeing black smoke and yellow flames outside their window, Titov and Strekalov tried to fire the launch-escape system manually, only to get no response. To fire the escape system manually from mission control required each of two different operators, located in two separate rooms, to press separate buttons at the same time. With flames rising from the launchpad and the entire rocket already leaning 20 degrees to the side, controllers scrambled madly to get the system to free.
Just 10 seconds after the flames first appeared, controllers miraculously managed to somehow do this, activating the escape system and throwing Titov, Strekalov and the Soyuz T capsule more than 3000 feet into the air. For five seconds the emergency engines fired, subjecting the two men to forces exceeding 15 g’s. Then the engines cut off, the descent module separated, and its parachutes unfolded.
At that moment, the entire rocket and launchpad exploded. The blast was so intense that the capsule, three miles away, was thrown sideways, and launchpad workers in underground bunkers felt the pressure wave.
Strekalov and Titov landed safely, their capsule hitting the ground with a hard bump that shook both men up but did them no damage. Rescuers quickly pulled them from the capsule, then gave them a glass of vodka to calm their nerves as everyone watched the nearby launchpad crumble in flames and clouds of smoke. It took 20 hours to put the fires out.
There are so many cool stories out there, like the other time where some designer of the Soyuz rode up in it as something went wrong and so they came back ballistic and slammed into a snow covered mountain in an unfriendly country and survived, with injuries. Man there are such cool accounts.
Soyuz
can abort at every point of ascent. Just read up man.
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??, Sistema Avariynogo Spaseniya works all the way into orbit. You come back ballistic, it exists, it's been built, it works, it worked. There is footage, there are people alive today because of it. It works all the way to orbit man, get over it, it's not the end of the world.
http://suzymchale.com/ruspace/soyescape.htmlEnd of the day, they MAKE the safety systems, not excuses, they install the safety systems, and they use the safety systems, which save lives. It's not rocket science !!! wait, err, maybe a poor choice of words
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