Rocket Headed for International Space Station Aborts After Launcher Failure!

An incident took place during the Oct. 11 launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two men to the International Space Station, with the status of the spacecraft and crew currently unknown. Luckily both NASA astronaut and Russian counterpart return to earth and are reported safe.

The pair lifted off in Kazakhstan at around 2:40 p.m. local time from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz booster rocket.

Our next #AskNASA question comes from @ukvemsord, "Do the crew members do any jobs on the Soyuz?" pic.twitter.com/k2esgQcUKo
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 11, 2018

The pair was set to dock at the space station six hours after launch, but the booster rocket failed minutes after launch.

LIFTOFF! Shooting into the sky at 4:40am ET, the Soyuz rocket carrying @AstroHague and Alexey Ovchinin leaves Earth on a four-orbit, six-hour journey to the @Space_Station. Watch: https://t.co/BjMDNrNorR pic.twitter.com/0Cfm0Uu2Jx
— NASA (@NASA) October 11, 2018

A Soyuz failure could threaten continued operation of the International Space Station. Soyuz is currently the only means for crews to travel to and from the station, with commercial crew vehicles by Boeing and SpaceX not expected to be ready to enter service before the middle of 2019.

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