Superman abort startup system is still running.
In the new film “Batman vs. Superman: At the Dawn of Justice,” which hit movie theaters across the United States on Friday (March 25), the Man of Steel dives during the launch of a state of emergency and rescues crew members of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft from apparent certain death . This scene was shown in the trailer for the long-awaited film.
Ten years ago, it was a spacecraft that needed to be saved. In 2006, NASA’s “Superman Returns” for some reason tries to launch a shuttle from the top of an Airbus in the air, and also allows journalists to fly on board an aircraft to get very juicy shots. (Space shuttles transported carrier aircraft in real life, but only during transportation from place to place. During space flights, orbiters were launched vertically, from the ground).
This terrain strategy does not agree with the 2006 film, and Superman is engaged in rescue, as he was used to doing: he sends a shuttle to the orbital path, and also prevents the airbus from dropping to a baseball stadium in New York. If you missed this point, then view the clip:
The fleet of the shuttle was grounded in 2011, but the Union spacecraft are still in working condition. Indeed, the Union currently travels only from and to the International Space Station (although the US space flight companies SpaceX and Boeing are developing their own space taxis, which NASA plans to put into operation by the end of 2017). The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft at the top of the Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. History has proven that spaceships and rockets must be very reliable. The astronauts of the Union died during accidents in 1967 and 1971, but since then there have been no cases with a fatal outcome.
In real life, the Union is built without the help of Superman, and, thus, has its own rocket emergency system - a small rocket, which in an unforeseen situation directs the capsule, protecting it from danger, to the site. By the way, you can see this rocket in the trailer “Batman vs. Superman” - this is a long, pointed object in the upper part of the Union. (Apparently, this maneuver did not work in the film’s universe).
The shuttle program also experienced two deaths during its 30-year run. The Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch in January 1986, and Columbia collapsed during its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere in February 2003. In each disaster, all seven astronauts died.
