The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters
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Soyuz launch failure due to ‘deformation’ during assembly, Russian official says

  • The launch to the International Space Station was aborted minutes after blast-off on October 11, with the two crew surviving after ejecting in a capsule

Topic |   Space
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 6:28pm, 1 Nov, 2018

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The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters
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