1.   The escape module parachuted onto the runway moments before the final impact.

2.   Other navy officials said the conning tower, where the escape module was located along with periscopes and antennae, was heavily damaged.

3.   Pop guns are pale unless they shoot lasers and transform into lunar escape modules.

4.   NASA astronaut Michael Foale would wait inside the attached Soyuz escape module, ready to make a quick getaway with the two cosmonauts if necessary.

5.   The crew can easily leave with the help of the attached Soyuz escape module, according to Russian space officials.

6.   With the rocket engulfed in flames and tilting, the escape module holding Titov and cosmonaut Gennadiy Strekalov was thrown clear.