This afternoon, three astronauts are slated to launch on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station. For two of the three crew members, it’s a second chance, after a disastrous rocket malfunction cut short their last flight into space.
The trio launching today includes NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Hague and Ovchinin were slated to fly to the International Space Station on October 11th, on the same version of the Russian Soyuz vehicle they’re taking today. But just two and a half minutes into the flight, the Soyuz rocket that launched the two astronauts was destroyed when a side booster slammed into the rocket.
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