Mission marks a second attempt for NASA’s Nick Hague and Roscosmos’s Alexei Ovchinin, who were forced to abort their first launch after their Soyuz spacecraft failed in October
Russia's Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft blasts off carrying a crew of U.S. and Russian astronauts destined for the International Space Station in Kazakhstan on March 14, 2019.A Russian-American crew of three blasted off to the International Space Station early Friday, making a second attempt to reach the outpost after October’s aborted launch.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine congratulated the crew on a successful launch. “So proud of Nick Hague for persevering through last October’s launch that didn’t go as planned,” he tweeted. The trio will join NASA’s Anne McClain, Roscosmos’ Oleg Kononenko and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency who are currently on the space station. They will conduct work on hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.
A Russian investigation attributed October’s launch failure to a sensor that was damaged during the rocket’s final assembly. The next crew launch to the space station in December went on without a hitch.
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