Rocket astronauts will return to space: Russian officer

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Rocket astronauts will return to space: Russian officer







MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two astronauts who survived the flaw in the air of a Russian rocket will fly again and prepare tentatively to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of next year, the director said on Friday. Russian space agency. .  











The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin (C) poses with the astronauts Alexey Ovchinin of Russia and Nick Hague of the USA. UU., Those who survived the air failure of a Russian rocket, on board a plane during a flight to Chkalovsky airport near Star City. outside Moscow, Russia, October 12, 2018. Russian space agency Roscosmos / Brochure through REUTERS. EDITORS OF ATTENTION: THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THERE ARE NO RESTS. THERE ARE NO FILES.





Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, spoke a day after Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and American Nick Hague made a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan after the failure of the Soyuz rocket that took them to the orbiting ISS. 

The accident on Thursday was the first serious launch problem experienced by a Soyuz manned space mission since 1983, when a team escaped shortly before the explosion of a launch pad. Russia is now under pressure to demonstrate that its space program is safe or faces the loss of lucrative rates to take American astronauts into space. 

Moscow has suspended all manned space launches until it discovers what went wrong and Rogozin ordered a state commission to investigate. The Investigative Committee of Russia has also opened a criminal investigation. 

Sergei Krikalev, a senior Roscosmos official, said Friday that Russia could also delay a shipment of unmanned cargo planned by a Progress spacecraft to the ISS. Unmanned cargo launches carry food and other supplies to the ISS and use the same rocket system as the Soyuz. Russia says there is enough food on board to last until April. 









Astronaut of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Nick Hague of the United States and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Russia, boarded the Soyuz spacecraft MS-10 for launch at the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 11 of 2018. Yuri Kochetkov / Pool through REUTERS



Three people are now aboard the space station: a German, a Russian and an American. They were to return to Earth in December, but now they may be trapped there at least until January.  

VALVE FAILURE 

Roscosmos boss Rogozin posted a photo of himself sitting next to the two astronauts involved in the accident on Thursday, saying they had arrived in Moscow. Both men escaped unharmed and feel well, said Roscosmos.  









A view shows the Soyuz capsule carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, after he made an emergency landing after a failure of his rocket boosters, near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan, on October 11, 2018. Federal Air Transport Agency "Rosaviation" / Brochure via REUTERS



The accident on Thursday occurred when the first and second stages of the Russian rocket separated shortly after the launch of the Baikonur cosmodrome of the Soviet era of Kazakhstan. 

The Interfax news agency quoted a source familiar with the Russian investigation on Friday as saying that a major valve did not open due to a defective firing cartridge. That, in turn, had prevented the separation of the first stage of the rocket from its second stage.   

NASA has relied on Russian rockets to transport astronauts to the space station since the United States withdrew its space shuttle program in 2011, although the agency has announced plans for a test flight with two astronauts in a SpaceX commercial rocket on next April. 

NASA officials must now decide how or if to maintain a US presence in the $ 100 billion orbital research laboratory. 

Space is an area of ​​cooperation between the United States and Russia at a time of difficult relationships. When asked about the setback, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he "did not care" that American astronauts had to rely on Russia to enter space. 

Rogozin tweeted shortly before the failed launch on Thursday that he had signed a contract to send the first astronaut of the United Arab Emirates to the ISS. Interfax quoted a source on Friday as saying that it would probably now be delayed six months. 





Written by Andrew Osborn; Edition by Christian Lowe and Peter Graff





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