The Accidental Spacecraft Splashdown Which Almost Killed Its Crew 

Goddamn i love futurama

You are saying that there is no dynamic air pressure during launch or reentry or landing (with the cushion boosters) that can spike beyond one atmosphere?

@@advorak8529 oh dear

@@advorak8529 bruh, it's a joke, watch futurama

@@advorak8529 it's a Futurama reference to a sinking spaceship. Even then, the Soyuz is protected by a fairing during launch.

Ikr. That part brought tears to my eyes.

I hope he at least got a medal out of this.

Actually, -20C isn't to cold for Russia. Almost every year (especially in the past) there are days with -30C. Don't get me wrong, I still admire everyone involved.

What a hero!

@@user-te7rf8ik7z -30 dry cold is much "warmer" than -20 on a salt water lake, they said there was snow storm, so probably enough of waves (that raise mist) on the lake to make the boating excursion at -20 there feel like -50

He accidentally tapped [spacebar] on impact.

Thank you, all those geniouses in the comments, like nobody there thought of cutting the chutes, not even the rightfully reluctant pilot.

@@sergeigontcharenko3476 i dunno bobby, image at 7:25 seems to suggest the chords aren't some something you can cut with a dinky blade

Great tip here my friend. Wish it would be right at the top. Since you dropped one allow me to as well. If you lose all your lug nuts changing a tire. Just pull one lug of each of the other tires. Apply them in a triangle shape. Should get you home not across country.

@@sergeigontcharenko3476 Yeah, my thoughts as well. These chords were probably arm thick, water soaked, and - what's worse - probably under water at waaaay below freezing conditions during a storm. Maybe if they had brought a diver with a suitable torch and a subdued survival instinct, then he could have - maybe - tried to cut it...

@@MeetDannyWilson They cannot have been 'underwater at waaaay below freezing conditions'. The water would have been ice. Just saying. But yes; conditions were not quite optimal.

Sorry, this universe has Lagrange points.

:)

@@advorak8529 I laughed way too much

They couldn't, it was bobbing around in the water too much.

@@advorak8529 ouch

Or, in the case of a mechanised attacker, spring.

Winter: Finland's defense against invasion by, well, Russia. Lol

And yet the Germans invaded during definitely not winter and we're stalled due to logistical problems, difficulty keeping up with the losses they had sustained, and most critically, lack of sufficient oil forcing start and stop attacks and widespread demechanization. It may have been winter forcing the Germans to eat the frozen remains of their horses, but it was oil that made them so reliant on horses to begin with.

lost a couple of fingers but now there are a couple of dudes that cannot say no to buying him another round. maybe good trade

By the way, there's a decent recent russian movie called "Age of th epioneers" about Leonov's first spacewalk. A tiny bit hollywoody, but i enjoyed it.

The scene at the end of gravity was partially based on situations like this, and Gus Grissoms Liberty Bell 7 - which left him swimming in the Ocean, and the capsule sinking

Watch Salyut 7. Great movie and much more realistic than Gravity.

Hopefully, without fucking Clooney ghosts.

Exactly. This has "edge of your seat" movie plot all over it! Quik! Somebody call Tom Hanks!

I also liked the bit about the community ass brush prank.

That’s so funny, I just started reading Endurance yesterday

Real life emergency is a great motivator, you'd easily do things you would never be able to accomplish in a drill.

@@michaelbuckers While I agree, it shouldn't be forgotten how hard it can be on a human body to undergo a Soyuz-style tumbling reentry after several days in zero gravity. Getting the flight suits off and water gear on must have been an absolute PITA.

@@_tyrannus However since at least the wetsuit part had been completed by that unfortunate crew, unweakened by a long space stay; I wonder why they couldn't abandon the disposable capsule and crawl into the boat. After all, that would have been standard procedure on land.

X-ray altimeter?! did such a thing ever exist? Having your altimeter work on radio waves seems a bit more straightforward - radio waves are more bouncy than x-rays... Also, "a couple sieverts" is a lot...

What were "local fishers" fishing in a lake so dead it can't freeze in minus 25C?

@@cbboegh We didint say they were very good fishermen.

@@cbboegh I doubt about having fishermen there, but local people can use boats for transportation at least

@@cbboegh There are no fish in the lake itself, but russian wikipedia says there are a lot in rivers' delta.

My thoughts precisely. I can totally see a shortage of volunteers to stick their arm the -20 brine but the diver is obliged to be dressed for the water temperature and also to have a sharp knife.

I was thinking the same. But cutting ropes would probably be too difficult. Especially in this weather. But they should build in a way for releasing the chutes from spacecraft.

@@brocktechnology Well, there was a diver?!

There probably wasn't. I assume that would have been their first thought but they towed the capsule anyways, so cutting wasn't that easy.

im sure it would be reasonable to cut the parachutes designed to withstand very high speed and extreme temperature with a knife. im not sure rescue crew even had knifes

Make damn sure you couldn't do it accidentally though!

What’s really amazing is that I studied Architecture under a scholarship in the USSR. Started September 1981 and finished 1986....and I never heard about this incident, despite taking a very keen interest in the Soviet Space Program and buying lots of RUSSIAN literature about it. Shocking eye opener!

"piqued my interest" is the saying. But yeah. How was the atmosphere contaminated? Blins and vodka caused too much flatulence, or was it an actual malfunction of something? :p

He already has a video about that.

@@johnellis8401 I thought I remembered watching that. Was it the incident in which there was some kind of an issue with the descent as well? Like some valve opening during descent and iirc, killing or almost killing the crew.

@@Kepe *deficiency of blini and vodka

@@Kepe I don't remember exactly, I know that it was the one where life support was failing because of mold behind the panels though.

It may surprise you, but he almost got under court-martial for leaving his helicopter unattended. Military, you see. Cosmonauts backed him up and he was let off the hook.

Also, the guy stayed with the cosmonauts and supported them. A true comrade. However, even if he wanted to leave, he couldn't - the strong wind was blowing from the shore, and he couldn't row against it. He got trapped almost as bad as the cosmonauts were.

Also, the cosmonauts traditionally (and rightfully so) were getting their Hero Star after the flight. Not this time tho. The initial investigation was blaming the crew, and while the final report didn't have that statement, but the Hero Star was not awarded. Only later, when the crew met Brezhnev, he said "Why without Stars, eh?" - and the team got their Stars, after all.

@@vladimirdyuzhevReminds me of Mercury-Redstone 4 for the US missions where the Liberty Bell 7 capsule upon water landing the door jettisoned causing the capsule to start filling with water and Gus Grissom ended up being subject to quite a bit of controversy as NASA had doubts that the hatch blew open on its' own. A few flights later if I recall correctly after Wally Schirra's capsule was recovered, he blew the hatch on the deck of the carrier intentionally, something which creates quite a lot of force and therefore caused injury to Schirra. Gus Grissom had no injuries at all and this is what finally exonerated him from the speculation that ensued. To this day the best guess for what happened is the release lanyard came loose as it was held in place by a single screw. It's a real damn shame that, at least in that era, the government agencies were so quick to blame the astronauts for things such as this. The politicization of it all and the fact that astronauts were not quite as professional (test-pilots in the US case) as they are today probably has a lot to do with it. I think by the time the Apollo 1 fire occurred it was strongly realized that there are many, many more people that should be held accountable and an astronaut's ability is only as good as the spacecraft that the engineer's built for him to fly.

The Soviets were not big on giving out medals for embarrassing failures, even when they are well deserved. Just look at the K-19 accident, those guys were definitely heroes, and several died, but the whole incident was classified and covered up, and no one got medals.

he keeps changing it to a random spacecraft

Yeah always an awesome surprise!

Well, yeah, it's cool... , but the voice says "Thank you! Goodbye! See you soon, dear friends!". Which actually is a farewell, not greetings :)

@@zelda_smile its not random, its based on the topic of the video.

See to wiki. Everywhere, and not just in USA, Soviet program is poorly understood. Even I, who read a lot about it, did not see all the photos from this wonderful video. Similar adventures during landing have been more than once. Even recently.

Brass I would hope. Steel balls rust quickly in salty water. But you're right, these bastards are beyond tough.

paid with their lives*

Cosmonauts AND Astronauts in the 60's to 70's ALL had humongous Cobalt Steel balls.. 😉

@@KuK137 Well, more astronauts went up so yeah, statistics :)

Nasa is the same. SLS... woo... It's slowly getting better now under the new administration, but it's got a long way to go before it's cool again.

He did!!

**Stab** Oops sorry there **Stab** Terribly sorry **Stabs eye** Darn I was using that **Stab**

@@cyborg_v271 sto.. STAB!

Yes, instead it was a photographic mission.

Keep the faith, and anything is possible

Yeah, it will be the alien invaders. They are coming for our water and our women. Because they cannot get to an asteroid and they are as attracted to them as we are to worms and fig leaves for procreation.

Remember Murphy's law. It'll land on your head

@@advorak8529 Where's a Duke Nukem when you need one?

Be careful what you wish for. 15П155М is technically a spacecraft as well.

I don't think so. The admiral's name was spelled "Rozhestvensky" and the cosmonaut's name was spelled "Rozhdestvensky". Note the extra "d".

Doubt it. Rozhdestvensky is quite common surname here in Russia. He might be distant relative but not direct descendanr. By the way i'm surprised that someone from the western country knows about admiral Rozhdestvensky because even in Russia his name is familiar only to historians and some people who are fond of the history of the navy, like me.

@@alexchivilev Has to do with the rise of some good youtubers who have a naval background or interest. Drachinifel ( british engineer and hobby historian) and The Mighty Jingles (retired british navy sailor, video game tuber with a love for history) both gave a nice account of the chaotic stories of the Russo-Japanese war....

@@Zonkotron Luckily, none of the rescue boats were named Kamchatka.

@@phodon129 Because I'm pretty sure they would have manage to see torpedo boats even on Lake Tengiz...

Errr... no. It sounded unrecognizable. Value the effort and all that, but, at the end of the day, Scott failed.

I'm Russian, can confirm that pronunciation is completely butchered.

And DM-1 landed more recently.

@@scottmanley Very true.

Thank you

Thanks, the Dictionary of Russian Personal Names would have made led to believe the accent was on the second syllable.

@@jrt818 it is on the second one - Rozhdéstvenski

@@Pash2024 I think many may not know that in Russian phonetic transliteration there are no accented characters. This is how Russians indicate stress / accent syllable.

The facts that it was so well told helps a lot!

I was going to do this, but Rusty Schweikart told me there are serious errors with many of the accounts and we haven’t got together to talk these through.

What's that? It's so familiar