so one one small one stage. all the fuel is just detaches and the next stage is stage comes into action and this is the way that the craft. gets its velocity as well as for the payload some of. it is placed at the very top of the craft. this could be anything just a lot could be anything. is feel an engine. yes exactly. what i would say it's the fuel that takes most of the way to the engines and then the payload so as far as we know at the moment where is the rest the rocket we know that. as landed back there in the step successfully with the with the two guys back on board where is the rest of it.

well i think it's. already. it's basically doesn't exist anymore it's destroyed is it it's burns up it burns up in the atmosphere is it high enough for the burn up on impact. well i don't think it was. high enough to be burned up when and to in the atmosphere so early days this and again i don't know how much of a hand leave. what's happened here today but what is your thought about what went wrong if you got an initial thought. i'm not a magician i cannot know everything especially in such a difficult complicated system as the as a booster rocket. it's difficult to say exactly what happened the investigative

committee world. will conclude what's happened here but. speaking broadly any complicated system cannot be completely trustworthy completely secure and the more the complicated the less security is space technology is very complicated but it's created in a way so that there are a few malfunctions as possible the point of it is very clear right now that. there's not some construction problem it's not something wrong with the rocket itself or what it was maybe something went wrong where they were producing the booster themselves. maybe there were some other factors we hear there's going to be a delay in. whether we're just going to stay on these pictures for a second again we've got alexander in with his former russian cosmonaut delighted

in the studio a member of the thirtieth manned mission to the former soviet space station mir it's really great to get his insight to be with us as we bring in these exclusive pictures from baikonur we believe that's to me two records in the head of the cosmos you got there very quickly today to give his support and to try and find out how these guys work they got back down to earth of eventually i believe he might be standing there to give a comment to the media we were promised that he and or the russian the american will be talking to the media. we've lost that signal for now we're going to try and go straight back to did a minute. yeah i think we've lost it for now but anyway as when they do speak we will bring that to you we go back to it i just got this feeling is going to be speaking. media feel what i'm missing but until until he.

i have another question to xander alexander of what. to do on the we have two theories. one is that i want to build. and he says i can study this lower the pressure. and this is why the merges the systems oxidative there is a little bit of a different theory that one of the models did not detach and this led to the emergency and if you believe what do you believe. the more probable scenario if any . well both both of these scenarios likely where you get that when. a rocket is launched. all the statistics basically are collected and. transferred back to get to the ground i don't know all of this information i don't know where the pressure rose so what it didn't this is up to

the specialists to decide when the stages are detached to it as a possible that. the. stages did not detach. i personally believe that this didn't happen because they usually don't hit one another so maybe one of the stages did not detach that's i think of more probable. yes i think we do have the head of the russian space agency speaking so let's go live and listen to what he has to say. to you you going to be good. ok we double got the sound yes he is speaking but we haven't got it translated yet but i think it's a couple only seconds. you so soon will hear the first reports coming from experts regarding the data received from the spacecraft.

all in all i want to say. that we highly appreciate what you did they acted professionally and it was called blooded man i heard the communication with the operators operators were also very professional handling the whole situation so all in all. thanks to all the training and preparations we succeeded in making these rescue operation happen but again as all the contributions will come later on things guards. they feel fine that's ok they have no we that's all fine thank you. all i was pretty brief reiterating what we already know that both the russian commander alexia chin and the u.s. flight engineer nick a fine a well with us in the studio an example if you can by the way we hear they may be

speaking as well some time but you know even if they don't immediately understand they might need a minute to we're just going to handle on what's happened to them over the last couple of hours or so back to alexander your insight is really good to have you've sat on a rocket like this when it's gone up. if i'm not mistaken what does it feel like to actually be there as it's happening around you. somewhere which. is really well actually it's not out of the ordinary what we kind of accustomed to having people go into space. but you know when the point of my first flies happened this was my first of the lights and. i had a thought that yeah absolutely i'm completely safe and secure. whatever happens to the to the booster i'm going to survive i don't with the second

thought i had was i'm not the first person to go into space i mean you know there were people before me and all of the most of them returned and they did. so the probability of my quite high this is why i was going to as if i were going to job this is like a job to me going to work at us because we. just moments ago admit to ruggles in characterized this operation as a success the emergency operation and do you agree with his assessment. how would you assess. this kind of emergency situation well i'd say that. the work itself to provide security to the crew of the recreation itself. it. was. great it's like a swiss clock. so all of the emergency services were already prepared in the region

positioned on standby so the crew didn't have to wait for a long time. when the planes sold their lending book. which goes to show that this kind of this part of the operation. was a good form of source very well. even if this kind of emergency happened later during the flight there would still be emergency services waiting for them. but since everyone is alive and well. which is good. which my second question was about. the theories and assessments about the health of these people because you have seen on the video you know what a cost menards feels like what it feels after the flight after the landing do they look ok yes they look like everything is ok they don't they probably won't need

much help. if it's own thing that. anything could happen that would require medical help. there was an emergency situation with a booster but the urgency of the system to save the crew performed great so early in the movie and so the main thing was to get these people to come back to earth harmed and this is what happened and so i believe that there. does it make you proud and your part in it your part in mere except it doesn't make you proud. no. gospel for them well. that's doing it but with a project that is something we can be proud of. me

i do not know any kind of technology that would be even more reliable than the soyuz. craft. where i felt completely at ease during my launches which goes to show that i was satisfied with what was happening before me before that during the previous flights so even if there were emergencies they were resolved. of course well i would like to have some new comfortable big. ships and some instead of what we have right now with the flight attendants of course that's not here it's operational we don't have that. that's there in the future alexander for russian cosmonaut and member of the thirtieth manned mission to the former soviet

space station mir thank you ever so much for coming to see is giving us your insight we really appreciate it thank you. so we're all we as it stands at the moment we're waiting in baikonur for another person to come and talk to the media we think the wife of alexy of chin and she's going to be hugely relieved we had a little clip from earlier on but obviously it wasn't too long she had much more to think but rather talking to the press today as it stands you've been across some of the feeds coming in there any more updates you know we know these guys are back safely now they've already made their way back to baikonur we've already heard from mr burgos the head of roscoe's most to be to rigors in saying that as far as this operation was concerned i see the plan b. if something didn't go to as it should have done. this for a safety was concerned everything went like clockwork they are amazingly see those pictures we first saw them on the sofa back it back before they got to.

people before they got back to biking or they just amazingly well didn't they considering what they'd just be through and i would also like to pick up on what. alexander has mentioned here about the world just about the soyuz rocket just about the so used rocket. and these are actually the latest pictures i think of what we're looking at right now are the latest pictures of from a given it there. this the american are almost. hugging his relatives. that's a very touching moment actually that we're witnessing right now taken stock of what he's been through play see it all and it's ended up being a maiden flight for him too always a thing to remember the air but the ok ok going back to the rocket that basically saved his and cosmonauts life it's one of the most again it's a very reliable it's a very reliable rocket as we know a previous previous failure. for

a manned flight was back in ninety eight c three so that's what so that's what happened and its launch speed is three point eight meters per second and so there's that and it can carry also up to three members it can carry up to three members so it is again it's history dates all the way back to nine hundred fifty seven that's when the first that's when the first sputnik and i think now very very soon we can speak to the wife of the russian cosmonaut of the russian cosmonaut she talking to the press or she's speaking specifically to the exclusive. solution to a lot of the here let me just a little yes let me just quickly check if we have a translation i would because i will be talking in russian with with her sick line

of thought but i didn't hear you get is that enough studious because we to remain absolutely to. that yes yes i can hear you. but it's obvious you wouldn't it is really because it's brussels the carcass to get used to it. when you. really understand your point so you know i was. sure we get that subtle often come back for in just a second i'll just try and gotten. or. to. put it. because really subordinate discovery to puzzles the clock researchers to. run you know we haven't got them and we haven't ok a signal that i think at the moment ok yeah i think there's so there are some problems with the connection so we will get back to speed line as soon as we sort out all to you know if it was shooting into a home for the first time to have not caught up on all the news maybe you haven't

got to bring it all straight to your mobile device or free of charge let me take you through what has happened today bad news but good news as well. big story that been covering rolling for the last six hours or so the soyuz launch in kazakstan today that was it going up didn't go quite to plan it happened two forty pm local time there was about eleven o'clock in the morning moscow time. it was taking two men up to the isis so should have. it didn't quite go to just a couple of minutes after it took off there was a problem with the first section of the rocket that began to melt function just a couple of minutes that was in. to take you through some of the story then eager you've been across it there what happened then yeah well i just just before we get there i just want to bring the latest because according to the russian investigative committee they've opened a criminal investigation is basically so it is being it is being treated as a criminal offense so that's to say it was done something that could be apparently

they're looking into whether or not there was malicious intent and when it comes to the construction of the rockets so they are suspecting there was a violation of safety protocols of curing the construction of the products of the of these so using rockets this is what we are getting from the from the investigative committee and it's a standard thing because that would sound alarming to some people around the world for a while a political inversion because you means that right now. now the main the primary version of what happened is basically is basically is basically that something wrong happened on the stage of the manufacturing and i'm being told about let me delighted to say i know that we've got the wife or the russian cosmonauts for. joining us now live from atlanta hi you're live on r.t. international i know you don't speak good english i don't speak good russian but it's been translated first of all how are you.

i'm much better now thank you what you'll do you been like take us through your day . it's not really it's not realize that the online i watched the launch on my t.v. and then i turned it off at some points and then from my neighbors i learned the news. well you can understand how if it was very hard. but i've got people who supported me my friends my family members they supported me so much. of this is in the studio correspondent well cosmonauts of course are prepared trained for years for situations for emergencies like this one

but what about you do you are you are you have you been prepared for something like this because it sounds like an impossible thing to be ready for. you when you know you can't be ready for that you can get ready for the. yes cosmonauts they have training when they are prepared but we wives all we do you is just get worried. have you managed to talk to alexey reminders to speak with any length. after an hour and a half i think he was given the opportunity to call me and today he called and said he was ok and that we're going to see each other soon i know sometimes the personal times he probably did he said thing else you.

young. as a soldier he said they were ok with me that they were not injured so that we wouldn't be worried and they will be back home very soon. how long do you think before it gets where you're a moscow now you're. no no no you're a biker. all along our city you know ok how long before you physically get to see him do you think within the coming hours. you. know. what the moments of the flight will land today. some have already called what happened today a miracle do you feel this way.

there is a bit of a miracle in what's happened i think i'd like to thank the rescue team. and those who in vented the whole search and rescue says they heard a sound that a lot of people were saying sounded like the rocket launch itself but far off away so perhaps that was that was them hearing the emergency capsule back in orbit we don't know but but basically that's what happened. ok we just have to take a very quick break and then in a couple of minutes we'll be back with the latest on the emergency situation and the landing of this soyuz crew thank you. join me every first day on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to guests of

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hello this is art international just zero five pm here continuing rolling coverage of the big breaking news story from kazakhstan today it's on our part chirality international coming live from moscow so we're going to give you the best coverage and indeed we have been on exclusives to its kevin owen and he goes down over the studio eeg is coming to him in a minute is across all the latest feeds we've got some great coverage you just choose to show you so stay with us for maybe the next hour or so so let me tell you if you're just shooting in what's happened today earlier on a rocket motor function and it forced a man soyuz launch to be aborted just two minutes after takeoff thought very quickly if you're watching the launch earlier on you'll know that was it.