Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket (launch abort)

What's amazing is that the safety systems on the rocket is so good nowadays - the cosmonauts would even survive a explosion on the pad. The system covers almost every part of the flight. The Space Shuttle was a death trap compared to it.

Its actually amazing how few fatalities there's been since the dawn of the space age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents
 
Early rockets (unmanned) were notoriously unreliable, so safety was paramount when designing for human spaceflight.

There will always be some probability of fatalities, and this is stated in the specifications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-rating_certification

The NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) human-rating standards require that the probability of a loss on ascent is no more than 1 in 500, and that the probability of a loss on descent is no more than 1 in 500. The overall mission loss risk, which includes vehicle risk from micrometeorites and orbital debris while in orbit for up to 210 days, is required to be no more than 1 in 270.
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The initial failure report is out along with an onboard external video of the incident.

The abortive launch last month of a manned Soyuz mission to space was caused by a sensor damaged during the rocket’s assembly at the cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian investigators said on Thursday.
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