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- Nevertheless, after more than 100 crewed launches by Soyuz rockets, today's incident remains just the third serious launch failure, and all astronauts have survived those incidents. (A few Soyuz missions have ended with deaths upon re-entry, long after the rocket itself had done its job.)
Listening to the back-channel stuff today has been fun.