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| Soyuz rocket blasts ISS crew into space in 1st manned flight since dramatic launch failure | Soyuz rocket blasts ISS crew into space in 1st manned flight since dramatic launch failure |
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| A Soyuz spacecraft with three crew onboard blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) Monday. It is the first manned space mission since the October drama, which ended in an emergency landing after a failure mid-flight. | A Soyuz spacecraft with three crew onboard blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) Monday. It is the first manned space mission since the October drama, which ended in an emergency landing after a failure mid-flight. |
| The Soyuz MS-11 carried Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and NASA’s Anne McClain from Earth to dock with the ISS later on Monday. Kononenko and Saint-Jacques were the backup crew members for the previous MS-10 mission which ended with a booster separation failure. | The Soyuz MS-11 carried Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and NASA’s Anne McClain from Earth to dock with the ISS later on Monday. Kononenko and Saint-Jacques were the backup crew members for the previous MS-10 mission which ended with a booster separation failure. |
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| The October 11 launch saw two crew members, Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague, escape certain death in a massive high-altitude blast, as their capsule was pulled away from the Soyuz-FG rocket by the time-proven Russian emergency rescue system SAS, before it landed back in Kazakhstan. It turned out the problem was in an improperly assembled booster, which damaged the craft when it detached from the second stage. | The October 11 launch saw two crew members, Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague, escape certain death in a massive high-altitude blast, as their capsule was pulled away from the Soyuz-FG rocket by the time-proven Russian emergency rescue system SAS, before it landed back in Kazakhstan. It turned out the problem was in an improperly assembled booster, which damaged the craft when it detached from the second stage. |
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| The drama added tension to the Monday launch, but it appears Russian space engineers double-checked everything before giving it the go-ahead. The three Expedition 57 members are expected to stay in space for 194 days. Their mission includes several supply runs by Progress MS, SpaceX DM, and Boeing’s Boe-OFT freighters. They will also conduct a number of scientific experiments in remote sensing of Earth and low-gravity biology. | The drama added tension to the Monday launch, but it appears Russian space engineers double-checked everything before giving it the go-ahead. The three Expedition 57 members are expected to stay in space for 194 days. Their mission includes several supply runs by Progress MS, SpaceX DM, and Boeing’s Boe-OFT freighters. They will also conduct a number of scientific experiments in remote sensing of Earth and low-gravity biology. |
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| Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev, who is currently onboard the space station, are also scheduled for a spacewalk to examine the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the outside. The ship was found earlier to have an apparently drilled hole in one of its modules. The leak was sealed, but the hole still needs to be examined to finally find out how it came to be in the first place. | Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev, who is currently onboard the space station, are also scheduled for a spacewalk to examine the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the outside. The ship was found earlier to have an apparently drilled hole in one of its modules. The leak was sealed, but the hole still needs to be examined to finally find out how it came to be in the first place. |
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