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Damage at Baikonur after Soyuz launch: Russia can't send people to space

12 days ago
  • #Space
  • #Soyuz
  • #Russia
  • Damage at Baikonur cosmodrome after Soyuz MS-28 launch.
  • Service cabin collapsed; launch infrastructure significantly damaged.
  • Launch pad 31 is the only one in Russia for manned ISS missions.
  • Metal structure found in gas exhaust tray, indicating a major incident.
  • Russia temporarily unable to launch people into space, first since 1961.
  • Soyuz and Progress spacecraft launches to ISS now impossible indefinitely.
  • No official response from Roscosmos yet.