Russia Loses Ability for Manned Space Missions After Collapse of Launchpad at Baikonur Cosmodrome - Suchomimus

[TexasTowelie]

Launchpad 31/6 at Baikonur Cosmodrome collapsed, destroying the service cabin after the launch of a Soyuz rocket. The launchpad is the only one Russia has capable of manned space missions.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Russia is literally falling apart.

[marble falls]

2. Shocking how "four days" in Ukraine is bringing down Russia.

[Gore1FL]

3. Half a century ago, used to have two space-faring nations, The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Now we have one, China.

[SheltieLover]

4. More ruskie engineering

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Damage also reported in the media - whether the launch ability is lost isn't confirmed

Russian cosmodrome damaged after Soyuz launch to ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, despite damage to the launch pad in Kazakhstan during liftoff.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos said "damage to a number of elements of the launch pad was detected" after the mission launched earlier in the day from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

It added that repairs would be made quickly, though some Russian space bloggers warned that the agency may be unable to conduct launches for some time at its only manned-mission site.

The Soyuz spacecraft arrived safely at the ISS, where Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams, are expected to spend eight months in orbit.

https://www.dw.com/en/russian-cosmodrome-damaged-after-soyuz-launch-to-international-space-station/a-74932834

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Russia has lost its only launch pad for crewed missions.

Link to tweet

[mitch96]

7. and And AND....they lost anotherone....

[TexasTowelie]

8. It's so nice for the Russian government to provide daily firework shows to its citizens.

I saw the video a few minutes ago so I would say that the Russians are having a rough day.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Heckuva job Pooty Poot

[Warpy]

10. Rocket science involves maintenance, who knew?

Russia, from the early days, has always realied heavily on Ukrainian engineering and then electronics, it's one reason they so desperately wanted to scare them back into being a puppet state. Oops.

I'm sad to see this, the USSR was far ahead of us at one time and their space propgram freed up a lot of R&D money here that Republicans were loath to spend. It was because of this that we have such amazing things as space based telescopes and the unmanned probes that have told us so much about our neighborhood as well as starting to tell us what interstellar space is like. I'm not celebrating this one and Ihope the hiatus is a temporary one, that once Putin is gone, Russia begins to go sane, crazy doesn't seem to be working out for them.