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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by docbrown on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:17PM (#18194762)
The Soyuz T-10-1 launch in 1983, maybe? The escape system launched minutes before the explosion on the launching pad happened.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-ST_No._16L

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Re:Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket by jpatokal on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:29PM (#18196329)
2 to 6 seconds before the explosion, not minutes.
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