US & Russian Astronauts escape after emergency landing the Soyuz rocket A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut were forced to make an unprecedented emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned while it was en route to the (ISS) International Space Station. Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin reported a problem with the rocket’s booster soon after taking off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Astronauts were forced into a “ballistic descent”, with their capsule touching ground a few 100 miles north of Baikonur. Rescuers were at the landing spot to…
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