What It Felt Like to Be Aboard the Failed Rocket Launch to the Space Station

What It Felt Like to Be Aboard the Failed Rocket Launch to the Space Station

What It Felt Like to Be Aboard the Failed Rocket Launch to the Space Station







Everything was fine, until NASA astronaut Nick Hague felt a sudden tremor. "The first thing I noticed was that they shook me violently from side to side," he said. During his first interviews issued publicly. from his Soyuz rocket Failed shortly after takeoff on October 11.



	

	The rocket was intended to carry The Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to the International Space Station on what would have been the American's first trip into space. Instead, the couple's emergency rescue system went into action after a problem during the booster separation.



				This is the shimmy that the crew experienced during the booster separation, transmitted by NASA and reproduced here. So happy you are safe!
More on the launch failure: https://t.co/Ws3Qu97BWK pic.twitter.com/JH2N3ROMqA

		- Steve Spaleta (@stevespaleta) October 11, 2018

		His capsule that separates from the impeller with problems was the source of that tremor, and was accompanied by an emergency light and alarm. Together, these signs told the two astronauts that the description of their work for the day had just been rewritten, instead of reaching the space station, now it was only to return to Earth safely.

The[[In photos: abort landing of the crew of the space station after the failure of Soyuz launch]

		Hague and Ovchinin resorted to their emergency manuals and went to work to navigate the sudden landing. But while Hague had performed simulations of all kinds of mid-flight events, he had never flown into space before, which meant he was not always sure if an experience was typical of space flight or exclusive to his abrupt trip. "Everything was new to me, it was my first time," Hague said, and thanked Ovchinin for sharing his previous experience during the landing. "He was able to tell me what was normal, which was not normal."





						


Shortly after its launch on October 11, a Soyuz rocket malfunctioned, causing the crew to experience an emergency landing.

            						    Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA 


		Hague compared his flight trajectory with throwing a ball in the air, with the security mechanism that transported the astronauts from the point where they separated from the rocket to the highest point of that path. "I was able to experience a few seconds of weightlessness and I could see some things floating in the capsule" at the top, he said.

		He also took the opportunity to look out the window, not only to admire the Earth and space, but also to check how the ship was positioned. "My eyes looked out the window trying to measure exactly where we were going to be," Hague said. "Would we end up landing in the water, would we be in the steppes of Kazakhstan, did we go far enough to be in more mountainous and mountainous terrain?"

		Then, it was time to go back down, and that's where things got a bit complicated. "There is a series of events that we monitor as we move forward," Hague said. That includes monitoring the orientation of the capsule and how the systems respond to different inputs.

		It also meant physically preparing for re-entry, making sure they could breathe normally while experiencing such severity. "We needed to be prepared to support the 7 g that we were going to experience," Hague said. That's more than during a standard landing (around 5 g) but less than the 8 or more that the astronauts are exposed to during training before flying.

		There were other preparations to make too. "We needed to be ready for the initial shock of the [para]"We made sure that all our equipment was in place, and then we have to work with the rescue teams," Hague said, adding that as soon as the parachutes were opened, it was like any other Soyuz landing.

The[[This is how you saw the failed launch of the Soyuz rocket to an astronaut in space]

		"Thirty-four minutes may seem like a long time, but I can tell you that it seemed a quick enough moment from the moment the emergency occurred until I fell into the capsule looking out my window," Hague said.

		And so, they had done it, surviving the first manned launch failure in a Soyuz rocket since 1983. "The first moment I could breathe deeply in this whole test was when we stopped in our capsule," Hague said. "My window was about 12 centimeters [30 centimeters] from the ground that was outside and I could look through that and just breathe and take a moment and realize that what luck we had. "

		Quickly, he changed his mind and once again directed attention to the people who made his safe landing possible. "Maybe luck is not the right word," Hague said. "I think fortunate is the right word, because, as I mentioned before, there are only thousands of people who work tirelessly to implement the systems, those same systems that saved us last Thursday."



	Email Meghan Bartels in mbartels@space.com or follow it @meghanbartels. Follow us @Spacedotcom Y Facebook. Original article about Space.com.

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