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I do doubt those scenarios. The other capsules have all flown very well over the years and this one's safety system worked perfectly well.



First let me agree that spaceflight is hard, even the billions that NASA spends has led to so many disasters.

The problem there is with manufacturing and quality control. They've had endless problems with other recent rockets and it's natural to think their qualty problems hit this time. Spaceflight is one of the few area where the us and Russia are cooperating and I hope this isn't the end. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/10/200775748...




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