745 launches with under two dozen mission failures since the 1960s. A 1983 manned flight required launch-escape-tower-system shortly before the booster exploded. Cosmonauts died when a capsule parachute failed and others from an inadvertent decompression incident. Majority of failures have occurred since 2010.
A 1983 manned flight required launch-escape-tower-system shortly before the booster exploded.
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I read about that today. Due to fire damage, mission control was unable to abort, neither were the cosmonauts from inside the capsule. A backup radio system had to be used that required two officers to give the command within five seconds of each other. Before today it was a the only time an escape system had been used to save a crew.
Both cosmonauts went on to other missions. One flew a few times on the Shuttle.