Astronauts escaped death in Russia's spacecraft launch

The rocket encountered a problem during the launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, which caused the crew to make an emergency landing.

The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is tasked with bringing two Russian astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Nick Hague (Americans) to the International Space Station yesterday suddenly having a rocket booster problem after about 90 seconds. leaving the launch pad, the BBC reported. The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed that the crew's cabin landed safely even though it landed on a desert in Zhezkazgan, Central Kazakhstan.

The compartment contains two astronauts who land safely in Kazakhstan.(Photo: Sputnik).

The Soyuz booster sends the Soyuz MS-10 to take off at 15:40 pm Hanoi time at Kazakhstan's Baykonur Airport. The incident occurred immediately after the first floor of the rocket propelled away from the spacecraft. The second floor has engine problems and cannot operate as planned, forcing the crew to launch an emergency escape system to return to Earth.

Two astronauts were strongly shaken in the cavity at the time of the incident.(Video: NASA).

The four helicopters brought search and rescue teams quickly dispatched to Zhezkazgan, where the crew landed after the incident (400km northeast of the site). Both astronauts were lucky to escape and no one was hurt.

"The emergency rescue system worked well. The crew cabin landed in Kazakhstan and both astronauts survived," the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced on Tiwtter.

The process of the two astronauts on the Soyuz ship MS-10 had a problem and returned to Earth.(Photo: BBC).