Cross posted from politics.
Russian soyuz ms-10 was forced to make an inflight abort after a reported core booster failure this morning. Failure occured pre MECO, and if the telemetry was right it aborted right at 100km. The capsule performed a ballistic reentry downrange from baikonur cosmodrome, and both the Cosmonaut and Astronaut are reported safe and with no major injuries. They're headed to an airport in the recovery area, and will be taken back to baikonur afterwards.
Cause, and type, of failure are unknown.
The abort is at about 3:35
Russian soyuz ms-10 was forced to make an inflight abort after a reported core booster failure this morning. Failure occured pre MECO, and if the telemetry was right it aborted right at 100km. The capsule performed a ballistic reentry downrange from baikonur cosmodrome, and both the Cosmonaut and Astronaut are reported safe and with no major injuries. They're headed to an airport in the recovery area, and will be taken back to baikonur afterwards.
Cause, and type, of failure are unknown.
The abort is at about 3:35