How to pronounce “soyuz” in English

The Soyuz is still known as the safest and least accident-prone rocket on Earth.

The Soyuz is smaller than the Shuttle, also a bomb on the top of a hill, fully fueled with liquid oxygen

Shuttle and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, commanding the International Space Station, completing three spacewalks, and performing

You're inside the Soyuz capsule, which is like being in the front seat of your minivan with two other crewmates in giant, bulky space suits.

And the Soyuz and the Shuttle are similar in that they both launch people into space.

My first Soyuz launch was in 2010.

Got in our Soyuz, got back into those spacesuits that we launched in, strapped into our seats and prepared to undock from the space station.

Hang out in their Soyuz capsule until that object is passed.

on board a Soyuz 39, and he spent-- what?

And then I flew my last Soyuz launch-- I launched in March of 2015 for this year-in-space mission, landed a year later practically.

There's no countdown clock in the Soyuz.

Aleksey Ovchinin was the commander of the Soyuz.

And an Apollo spacecraft met a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit, and they docked.

And even before that-- you know Apollo-Soyuz?

And so it's the Soyuz Russian-built rocket.

where we can launch a Soyuz or maybe later on a commercial crew vehicle or something else and get there very quickly.

That went up on one of the Soyuz resupply missions.

But then when I got assigned to the Russian Soyuz, the Russians have water survival, which is pretty intense.

Yeah, this is Soyuz rocket.

And all crew is now rotating on Russian Soyuz rockets to the space station launch on the same launch pad that Yuri Gagarin launched from, the first human in space

And some of you have seen that on launches of Soyuz.

In 1971, the Soyuz 11 spacecraft returned to Earth.

their own the space programs and so on the Soyuz you know it's it's an

Now, to contrast this with the Soyuz launch-- the Shuttle and the Soyuz.

I flew twice on the Shuttle and then twice on the Russian Soyuz.

So the only way for a manned launch to the ISS is now the Soyuz.

And just the contrast-- I'll tell you a little bit about the Soyuz launch.

And then you just go undo the whole thing and get into the Soyuz?

It was one exception, which was Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.

classes to go through I had to learn all the systems on the Soyuz all the systems on the International Space Station and

You talked a lot about your interaction with the cosmonauts, and learning how to fly a Soyuz spacecraft, but also

Because they had an accident in the Soyuz.

I don't know if some of you ever saw pictures of me coming out of the Soyuz.

And then the crew will do a-- go to a safe haven, which is the Soyuz capsule.

Again, it was exception of newspaper article next day that-- Apollo-Soyuz was, as most people probably

like a pretty much, that would give you the entire holistic experience of a Soyuz rocket-- stage one, stage two, stage three, and then

center photograph you might notice there's guns in those cases there's actually guns on board the Soyuz and

spacesuit and put on a sea survival suit before you pop the hatch and there is no room inside of a Soyuz I mean it is you

When it was time to depart the Space Station and return home my Russian crewmates and I climbed into our Soyuz spacecraft, the same one we launched from five-and-a-half months

Then, a few years later, I got to fly in a Russian Soyuz, which those were two very different experiences for me.

But those are valid, because every once in a while-- you know, we just had a Soyuz accident, and the crew had to eject, if you will.

So talk us through the process of finding out that you're going to be on a mission through to actually arriving-- either the Soyuz or--

And then you do lift off slowly in the Soyuz, because there's no solid rocket motors.

And Tim, Tim, and Yuri then got ready to return home, to get back into their Soyuz.

Flash forward a couple of years, we're preparing for a Apollo-Soyuz.

And one of them is Jean Pierre Haignere, who is a French astronaut that lift off three time from the Soyuz rocket, three times or two

Most of those have been unmanned progress, which is the resupply vehicle from the Russian Space Agency, or the Soyuz spacecraft that can take up and down three

Or in a real emergency, the crew can come home, no problem, very quickly in the Soyuz.