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.

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 ...

The MS-10 Failure. To anyone who’s watched Soyuz (or more accurately, the R-7 family of rockets which the Soyuz is derived from) launches in the past, it was immediately obvious that there was ...

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 ...

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, ...

American astronaut Nick Hague talks Soyuz rocket failure 03:48. Two minutes after launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket last week, NASA astronaut Nick Hague knew something had gone badly wrong.. At ...

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.

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.

In its new exhibit opening in the fall, the Apollo 10 command module, named "Charlie Brown," will be positioned next to the Soyuz TMA-19M capsule, offering a rare opportunity to see U.S. and ...