A Russian booster rocket carrying a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian and US astronauts on board heading towards the International Space Station failed in mid-air on Thursday, this made the team to make an emergency landing.
The rocket was launched from the Soviet-era Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The rocket was carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ouchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague. A Routers reporter who observed the launched rocket from around 1 Km away said it had gone smoothly at the initial stage and that the failure of the booster rocket must have taken place at higher altitude.
Russian news agencies reported that the team had landed safely through the help of search and rescue crew in the air which headed towards the expected touch down location of the booster rocket.
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