3 astronauts were burned to death in Apollo 1 on the ground and Apollo 13 had to be aborted midway to the moon after an explosion took out life support
Soyuz has escape systems that made it one of the safest spacecrafts out there.
Most Soviet/Russian platforms have specially designed escape systems to improve the survivability of the crew. Soviet/Russian submarines have escape pods that their American counterparts don’t. The Russian Ka-50/52 attack helicopters are the only helicopters in the world that have an ejection system, and has been used successfully at least once in its operational history (during the war in Ukraine).
Most American spacecraft had a launch escape system too, the big exception was the Shuttle which ended up being the most deadly spacecraft of all time in large part because of how unsafe its fundamental design was.
3 astronauts were burned to death in Apollo 1 on the ground and Apollo 13 had to be aborted midway to the moon after an explosion took out life support
Soyuz has escape systems that made it one of the safest spacecrafts out there.
Most Soviet/Russian platforms have specially designed escape systems to improve the survivability of the crew. Soviet/Russian submarines have escape pods that their American counterparts don’t. The Russian Ka-50/52 attack helicopters are the only helicopters in the world that have an ejection system, and has been used successfully at least once in its operational history (during the war in Ukraine).
Most American spacecraft had a launch escape system too, the big exception was the Shuttle which ended up being the most deadly spacecraft of all time in large part because of how unsafe its fundamental design was.