Space crew abort flight after post-launch rocket failure

US and Russian crew of Soyuz spacecraft reported safe after emergency landingA Russian-American space crew have been forced to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan after their Soyuz rocket suffered a failure shortly after launching from Russia ’s Baikonur cosmodrome in one of the most serious space incidents in recent years.The launch began as a routine affair. Missions bound for the International Space Station (ISS) have been conducted every few months for the past 20 years. But 119 seconds into Thursday ’s flight, mission controllers on the Nasa broadcast began to speak of a failure.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 11, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Matthew Bodner in Moscow Tags: Space International Space Station Nasa Russia Kazakhstan Science South and Central Asia World news US news Europe Source Type: news