Manned Soyuz space mission aborts during launch
Friday, October 12, 2018 Soyuz MS-10, a manned Russian space mission bound for the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay, was forced to abort by a booster rocket failure Thursday morning. Rescue teams successfully recovered both crew members, Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and United States astronaut Nick Hague, shortly after they landed safely in Kazakhstan. About two minutes after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which took place at 8:40 UTC onContinue reading