channon is that forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve left and colonel in the russian air force the flight would have been his second journey into space is american colleague forty three zero nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and he was his my space flight with masses of highly explosive rocket fuel right behind you when something does go wrong to make a fast getaway and experts have been a porting to the escape system that propelled the pad to safety. thank you very much but of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them our guys came back to earth safely it's a very dangerous situation and it's. him in presence of. about the design of how they built this levy escape system that it works so very well but you're in a very volatile situation with lots of rocket propellant around you going very very fast very very high so things could have done much much worse and it's just great that the escape system works so well i flew on to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket myself came back in the soyuz capsule on my four