Putin Awarded NASA Astronaut after Soyuz Crash Landing
Nick Haig was supposed to arrive on the ISS on October 11, 2018, along with his American colleague Christina Cook and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin. However, then the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket was unsuccessful. The crew reported an accident almost 3 minutes after launch. As a result, the ship undocked from the launch vehicle and landed in Kazakhstan. According to the head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the reason was an unintentional mistake in assembling a rocket.
Ovchinin and Haig weren't injured. A rescue capsule with them landed 20–25 km from the city of Zhezkazgan. A special commission has been created to investigate the accident.
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