https://www.youtube.com/live/Onc8Tso_ONE?feature=shared&t=2309

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/ifCu1LlCC34?feature=shared&t=1679

 

Like someone mentioned in the YT comments section, liftoff occurred 22 seconds earlier.

I imagine a scene straight off a Russian version of the Simpsons:
-Homerov, pointing at a large red button: "What is this large button for?"
-Liutenant Burnsky: "Don't, don't touch it!!"
Homerov backs off, but clumsily knocks out a large coffee mug, which lands on the launch button.

 

Like someone mentioned in the YT comments section, liftoff occurred 22 seconds earlier.

I imagine a scene straight off a Russian version of the Simpsons:
-Homerov, pointing at a large red button: "What is this large button for?"
-Liutenant Burnsky: "Don't, don't touch it!!"
Homerov backs off, but clumsily knocks out a large coffee mug, which lands on the launch button.

In Russia, rockets don't wait.

 

The launch pad in Baikonur.