[SES1066]

9Gs vs 21Gs - either can be fatal or survived - it depends upon DURATION! If they did encounter 21G, it must have been VERY MOMENTARY and even then I tend to doubt the figure. A 150lb (guessing) astronaut in a form-fitted suit would only need to have a single crease to be badly hurt at a load of 3,000+ pounds! The same thing at 9Gs would be very uncomfortable.

[mabarker1]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and call the 21G’s happened when the Escape System pulled the Soyuz Capsule off and away from the rest of the Launch Vehicle that was lumbering along at a mear 4,970 MPH because to escape from the about to go BOOM part !!! you have to make NO BOOMY part go way faster than the about to go BOOMY part.

In total Soyuz rockets have been launched 745 times of which 21 have failed. Thirteen of those failures have been since 2010, calling into question the continued reliability of the rocket.

21 out of 745 is 2.82% failure rate, I guess that’s not to bad...sort of.

34 launches since 2010-Present with 13 failures, that’s 38.23% failure rate, Hmmmm Confucius say He no ‘rickey lecent flailure ‘late, NO RIDE Russian go BOOMYUZ FIRE CRACKER

Almost forgot- I’ll go with the 9G’s was encountered during the actual Capsule Reentry.

Fighter Pilots these days can pull 7-9G’s fairy often since They have GSuits.