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Roscosmos Director, Cosmonaut Ovchinin Discuss Failed Soyuz Launch (VIDEO)

The Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos is conducting a probe into a recent Soyuz rocket launch incident that was the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history.
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Roscosmos' director of manned spaceflight and former cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are discussing the possible reasons behind the failed launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft.

On October 11, a booster failed to launch the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

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Just minutes after the launch, the mission was aborted due to the booster's malfunction.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin escaped in a rescue capsule and returned on Earth unharmed.

Immediately afterward, the Russian side, which had built the booster, launched an investigation into the incident.

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