Reply to post: Re: A glitch in a Soyuz

Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

Ian Johnston Silver badge

Re: A glitch in a Soyuz

Just to get this story straight: The fault that caused a soyuz to misbehave and crew to climb to the escape pod has been identified and corrected.

It may have been identified, but it has not been corrected. For a start, it has already happened and is therefore beyond correction. Beyond that, it's not enough to know that something was wrongly fitted; you also have to know why it was wrongly fitted. If it was accidental, can you be sure that further accidents will not occur elsewhere. And if it was sabotage - which seems at least possible - how do you know you have caught all the saboteurs?

Oh, and all that aside ,,, what "escape pod". Soyuz capsules don't have "escape pods".

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