Astronauts make emergency landing

Astronauts on board a Soyuz rocket heading to the International Space Station survived an emergency landing following a booster failure on Thursday. The rocket was transporting NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin for a six-month stay on the ISS. Dramatic footage showed the capsule carrying the crew as it parachuted back to Earth before thumping down in a plume of dust in Kazakhstan, about 250 miles away from where it took off. Both crewmembers survived and appear to be in good condition. The rocket had lifted off minutes earlier, at 4:40 a.m. ET, on a journey that was expected to involve four orbits of the Earth and take six hours. The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft was able to separate from the Soyuz-FG rocket booster after the issue emerged and began a ballistic descent. A ballistic descent is a sharper angle of landing compared to normal which means the spacecraft would have been traveling faster than usual as it approached Earth.

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