Soyuz MS-10’s slender body and flared base stand stark—almost defiant—against the soft brown steppe and cloudless blue sky around Baikonur. The day is perfect. The rocket is not.

Soyuz MS-10 was then aborted on a ballistic entry, before safely landing downrange of the launch site. The crewed Soyuz, which would normally ferry three people to the Station, ...

Soyuz MS-10 commander Alexey Ovchinin, left, and NASA astronaut Nick Hague pose outside a spacecraft simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City near Moscow.

The Soyuz MS-10 descent module that on Oct. 11, 2018 made an emergency return to Earth with cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague was unveiled as part of a new installation outside ...

Additionally, including today, there have been three total failed launches of a crewed Soyuz vehicle — Soyuz 18-1 in 1975, Soyuz T-10-1 in 1983 and the Soyuz MS-10 launch this morning. Still ...

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The Soyuz MS-10 launch was slated to carry U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to the ISS for a six-month mission. But almost two minutes after liftoff, ...

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In both the Soyuz TMA-10 and -11 cases, the ballistic reentry worked as designed, protected the crew, and got them to the ground safely, where they were then recovered.

Compared to previous launches, Soyuz MS-10’s first stage separation looked messy, and careful examination suggests something knocked the rocket off course.

Their Soyuz MS-10 capsule landed east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan after their mission was aborted by a launch failure. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Finally, less than an hour before landing, the Soyuz spacecraft fires a four-minute, 21-second de-orbit burn. "As soon as you do the de-orbit burn things start to pick up," Lindgren said.