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Nick Hague, NASA astronaut
Sergei Savostyanov / TASS
NEW YORK, March 12th. / TASS /. NASA astronaut Nick Hague described Tuesday as a "technical marvel" a Soyuz-FG aircraft carrier rocket that will orbit the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft on 14 March.
"The production manager told us that it would be the launch in 1901 of a Soyuz rocket, 40 tons of well-designed equipment and 270 tons of propellant, it is a technical marvel!" The American astronaut has written on his Twitter page.
The departure of the crew members of ISS Expedition 59/60 – Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch – was originally scheduled for October 2018. However, the mission was foiled the aborted launch of the rocket Soyuz-FG 11
After a smooth take-off, the Soyuz booster malfunctioned between the first and second stages of separation. The crew was then forced to cancel the flight and switch to a ballistic descent. The inhabited Soyuz MS-10 satellite eventually landed safely in the Kazakh steppe. The crew was not injured. This was the first emergency with the launch of an inhabited spacecraft in the last 35 years.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques are currently working onboard the world's only orbiter.
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