Nearly a disaster. Energia rocket first launch with Polyus.

First energiya rocket launch. This rocket was also used to launch the soviet space shuttle. Video from You can see that it bents slightly just after lift-off (I bet some engineers suddenly remembered the N1). This was likely a bug in the guidance system, since this was the first launch and the second one (the one carrying the buran) went perfectly. Although that was a little scary, the system recovered very well and did a successful launch. The polyus payload guidance