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NASA thanks Russia for prompt crew rescue

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NASA thanks Russia for prompt crew rescue


17.12.2018

Photo: Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin

US space agency NASA thanked Russian military for promptly rescuing its astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin after an aborted Soyuz mission in October, TASS reported.

The news came after cosmonauts crash-landed in Kazakhstan on October 11 after the fail of the booster that carried their Soyuz capsule towards International Space Station.

Emergency escape system was used by the Soyuz crew. They jettisoned the carrier rocket sending space travellers into a steep fall back to earth. Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin were picked up in good health by a rescue team.

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