A Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned two minutes after liftoff October 11 on a mission to the International Space Station, triggering an automatic abort command that forced the two-member crew — an American and a Russian — to make a harrowing parachute landing in their capsule, 200 miles from the launch site in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Washington Post: Astronauts make harrowing escape, but Russian rocket failure roils NASA
In this image released by NASA, the Soyuz rocket is launched with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, on Oct. 11, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
