NASA to hold press conference about effects of Soyuz accident on International Space Station

By Tom Risen|October 11, 2018

NASA will livestream a news conference from the Johnson Space Center at noon EDT on Thursday. This follows the failed launch of the Russian Soyuz rocket after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft was intended to carry American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to the station on Thursday morning. Hague and Ovchinin landed and were flown to Baikonur.

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The NASA photo at the top of the page shows a Soyuz rocket after it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan flight engineer Nick Hague of NASA and flight engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos on Thursday. The flight was aborted moments later. 

NASA flight engineer Nick Hague, left, greets NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine after Hague landed at the Krayniy Airport with flight engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos on Thursday in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague and Ovchinin arrived from Zhezkazgan after Russian search and rescue teams brought them from the site where the Soyuz capsule landed. Credit: NASA