The Soyuz rocket and MS-25 spacecraft on the launchpad . NASA / Bill Ingalls / NASA / Bill Ingalls
The latest launching of Russia ’s usually reliable Soyuz roquette was called off just second before liftoff on Thursday , with the three crewmembers — including one NASA astronaut — now waiting for their next opportunity to fly to the International Space Station ( ISS ) .
A live flow of the incident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan capture the moment when the countdown was stop just 20 seconds before Soyuz was think to fire up its engine .
The Soyuz rocket and MS-25 spacecraft on the launchpad.NASA/Bill Ingalls / NASA/Bill Ingalls
Today's Soyuz launch was abort at the 20 - second Deutsche Mark . The spacecraft and crowd persist dependable . Teams at Baikonur will supply update as they make assessments.pic.twitter.com/xPBtWtDDsh
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In an update on its website , NASA saidthe launch had been “ mechanically scrubbed by ground support equipment due to [ a ] low voltage reading in the Soyuz rocket electric system . ”
The next uncommitted launch chance is on Saturday , March 23 , pending the windup of a State Commission revue , NASA tell . pilot to the ISS inside the MS-25 space vehicle atop the Soyuz rocket will be NASA cosmonaut Tracy C. Dyson , Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy , and Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya . When they eventually arrive at the ISS , they ’ll spend about six months living and act upon alongside colleagues already there .
Meanwhile , a SpaceX cargo delegation for the ISS got afoot from the Kennedy Space Center as planned on Thursday , air vital supplies andscience experiments to the orbital outpost .
Russia ’s Soyuz Eruca sativa have been blasting to space since 1966 , and it ’s rare for this workhorse fomite to experience a late abort like this .
One of the most striking incident affect the Soyuz space travel system in late year take place in 2018 when the ISS - bound MS-10 delegation give out to reach scope after a problem grow with the chief booster too soon on in the flight . The two - someone crowd was save by the emergency launching escape organisation , which pulled the Soyuz ballistic capsule away from the malfunctioning rocket before it descend to Earth with the assistance of parachute as if revert from a even mission .
Speaking about the incident , NASA astronaut Nick Hague , who was on his first escape to space , said : “ It was the right way after the first scaffolding when the booster started to separate . at heart , it went from normal to something - was - wrong pretty ready . The machine-controlled system pulled us away from the rocket salad so fast , and so the first matter I really noticed was being shake fairly violently side to side as the safety system pull us away from the skyrocket , and then there was an alarm inside the capsule … the mission exchange to pose back down on the primer coat as safely as we could . ”
Hague total : “ I guess that my first head trip to outer space was go to be a memorable one ; I did n’t expect it to be quite this memorable . ”
