On this day in 1983, the crewed Soyuz T-10-1 mission was to launch two Soviet cosmonauts to the Salyut 7 space station, when - with less than 90 seconds remaining to liftoff - their Soyuz U rocket caught fire. The launch escape system pulled the capsule with cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Gennadi Strekalov away from the fully fueled rocket, which exploded seconds later. The capsule's parachute deployed and the cosmonauts landed some 4 km from the Baikonur launch site, badly bruised due to the G f