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Rocket carrying two astronauts fails mid-air

Name: Rocket carrying two astronauts fails mid-air
Uploaded: 2018-10-11T22:13:01.178Z
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Russia has suspended manned space flights after the failure of one of its rockets

Russia has suspended manned space flights after the failure of one of its rockets. The booster rockets of a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut on board which was heading for the International Space Station failed mid-air

October 11, 2018

Footage courtesy of Reuters

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Engines

Engines at maximum thrust. Lift off.

And there is lift off of the Soyuz MS-10 to the International Space Station, carrying Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin to the orbital complex.

Everything looking good. Proceeding nominally.

Inaudible.

Emergency two minutes, 45 seconds. The emergency - the failure of the booster.

Hearing there that there has been an issue with the booster. And we're standing by for information as we continue to get it from the Russian flight control team. But everything seems to be fine with the crew. We had good com with them and they are OK. We continue to wait for more information.