00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launch pad.
00:08Two cosmonauts were inside the spacecraft, and they barely made it out alive.
00:12About 90 seconds before the rocket was supposed to launch, a fire erupted.
00:16Thankfully, the emergency escape system ejected their space capsule from the top of the rocket
00:20just two seconds before the fire caused the explosion. So far, this has been the only
00:24time that a launch escape system had to be used. And that's what happened
00:28on this day in space.
00:32NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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