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Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-10

Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-10

Status: Failure  |  Launched: Oct 11, 2018 08:40 UTC

Failure reason: An anomaly occurred during flight resulting in loss of vehicle, both crew members returned to Earth safely following a nominal ballistic abort.

Launch Provider & Rocket

Mission

Soyuz MS-10 was expected to begin expedition 57 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague to the International Space Station. However a launch failure occurred resulting in a loss of vehicle during flight, both crew members returned to Earth nominally.

  • Type: Human Exploration
  • Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

  • Pad: 1/5
  • Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Program

  • Soyuz — The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes. (Wikipedia)

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