A Successful Failure

[Judge]

A Russian Soyuz rocket flight on its way to the space station malfunctioned just after launch, however all the crew survived without serious injury.

Forty-eight years later after astronaut Jim Lovell insisted that there's nothing "routine" about manned spaceflight.

Space crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails | Reuters

 

[Judge]

With so many joint space flights with other nations Russia's space program has been fairly transparent compared to their Soviet past. They've been able to operate without incident for a long time.

Commendable given how inherently dangerous it all is.