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 by Staff Writers Yekaterinburg (Sputnik) Dec 21, 2018
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, the Russian Central Military District said in a statement on Wednesday. "During a solemn event, Roscosmos and NASA officials thanked crews... for their outstanding support in an emergency," the statement said. The military added that crews of An-12 planes, Mi-8 helicopters, and ground vehicles, which took part in the rescue operation, were awarded. They included paratroopers, military doctors and rescuers. The remarks come after space travelers crash-landed in Kazakhstan on October 11 after the booster carrying their Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station failed in mid-flight. The Soyuz crew jettisoned the carrier rocket using an emergency escape system, which sent them into a steep fall back to earth. They were picked up in good health by a search-and-rescue team. Source: Sputnik News
Astronauts land from ISS stint marred by air leak, rocket failure Moscow (AFP) Dec 20, 2018 Three astronauts landed back on Earth on Thursday after a troubled stint on the ISS marred by an air leak and the failure of a rocket set to bring new crew members. A Soyuz spacecraft ferrying Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said. "There's been a landing... The crew of the manned Soyuz MS-09 has returned safely to Earth after 197 days," Roscosmos said on Twitter. ... read more
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