Posted on 10/11/2018 6:36:04 AM PDT by C19fan
Two astronauts are alive after dramatically aborting their voyage to the International Space Station when their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned while it carried them into orbit at 4,970mph.
American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to abort their mission on the cusp of space, at an altitude of approximately 50km (164,000ft).
They landed safely in Kazakhstan after a 'ballistic re-entry', during which they experienced forces of up to 7G.
Video footage from the launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome shows a large plume of smoke coming from the rocket at the moment it failed and footage from inside the capsule shows the two astronauts being violently shaken about.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not that I know of but Ruskei Mission Control is PISSED about it now. So they are Really PISSED OFF about that situation.
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