The capsule has an escape system, and the LOX-LH2 are not mixed, so it would not be that easy to detonate the rocket (as opposed to deflagration). An explosion with a wonky escape timing I think is survivable to some degree. See the SpaceX Amos explosion during testing -- the explosion was not a detonation but a deflagration, no shock waves.
The capsule has an escape system, and the LOX-LH2 are not mixed, so it would not be that easy to detonate the rocket (as opposed to deflagration). An explosion with a wonky escape timing I think is survivable to some degree. See the SpaceX Amos explosion during testing -- the explosion was not a detonation but a deflagration, no shock waves.
Look no further than Virgin Galactic failure, to understand how space systems in their infancy are highly vulnerable.
Apollo 1, included.
Space X had a massive explosion ON THE PAD a few years back, due to a fuel delivery system failure.
SpaceX Amos accident? Oxygen igniting the carbon fibre of one of the in-tank high-pressure helium vessel(s).