 , a manned  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 and United States astronaut , shortly after they landed safely in Kazakhstan. Soyuz MS-10 shortly after liftoff on Thursday morning; the mission aborted minutes later. Ovchinin and Hague reunite with their families after returning to Baikonur following a launch abort. About two minutes after launch from the  in Kazakhstan, which took place at 8:40 on Thursday, a problem arose with the rocket boosters attached to the , during the process of booster separation. As the abort rocket system had been jettisoned a few moments earlier per normal launch procedure, the crew used the 's steering rockets to direct the spacecraft into a descent trajectory. During the descent, Ovchinin and Hague reportedly were subjected to forces of six to seven times Earth's gravity. Ovchinin and Hague were safely recovered along with the spacecraft's descent module about east of , Kazakhstan, and from the launch site, approximately an hour and a half after lift-off. Both were taken to a hospital in , Kazakhstan, for overnight observation as a precaution.
Soyuz , 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 and United States astronaut , shortly after they landed safely in Kazakhstan. Soyuz MS-10 shortly after liftoff on Thursday morning; the mission aborted minutes later. Ovchinin and Hague reunite with their families after returning to Baikonur following a launch abort. About two minutes after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which took place at 8:40 on Thursday, a problem arose with the rocket boosters attached to the , during the process of booster separation. As the abort rocket system had been jettisoned a few moments earlier per normal launch procedure, the crew used the 's steering rockets to direct the spacecraft into a descent trajectory. During the descent, Ovchinin and Hague reportedly were subjected to forces of six to seven times Earth's gravity. Ovchinin and Hague were safely recovered along with the spacecraft's descent module about east of , Kazakhstan, and from the launch site, approximately an hour and a half after lift-off. Both were taken to a hospital in , Kazakhstan, for overnight observation as a precaution.
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