FAILURE: Soyuz-FG - Soyuz MS-10 - October 11, 2018 - Baikonur (UPDATES)

[Galactic Penguin SST]

Nothing is more important than being alright.

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1050396089348747266

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1050395969265815554

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1050396225403539456

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1050396464483115008

[SciNews]

Soyuz crew will spend one night in hospital for medical checks - Interfax

The two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft, U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, will spend one night in a hospital in Baikonur for medical checks, Interfax quoted an unnamed source as saying on Thursday.
The spacecraft made an emergency landing earlier on Thursday near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan after its booster rockets failed in mid-air en route to the International Space Station.
In a separate report, also citing an unnamed source, Interfax said a crew currently in the international space station could be stuck there until early January.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-launch-crew-hospital/soyuz-crew-will-spend-one-night-in-hospital-for-medical-checks-interfax-idUSKCN1ML21J

[jacqmans]

Expedition 57 Crew Returns to Baikonur (NHQ201810110007)

Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, and Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA, right. embrace their families after landing at the Krayniy Airport, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague and Ovchinin arrived from Zhezkazgan after Russian Search and Rescue teams brought them from the Soyuz landing site. During the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft's climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

[whitelancer64]

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1050382180130742273

To note: the Russians name their stages a bit differently. What we would call the "core" stage is their 2nd stage. Their 1st stage are the 4 boosters.

[Satori]

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1050382180130742273

To note: the Russians name their stages a bit differently. What we would call the "core" stage is their 2nd stage. Their 1st stage are the 4 boosters.

So, the problem is possible related to the separation of the four boosters (?)

[jacqmans]

Expedition 57 Crew Returns to Baikonur (NHQ201810110008)

Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA embraces his wife Catie after landing at the Krayniy Airport with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague and Ovchinin arrived from Zhezkazgan after Russian Search and Rescue teams brought them from the Soyuz landing site. During the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft's climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

[jacqmans]

Expedition 57 Crew Returns to Baikonur (NHQ201810110009)

Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA, left, is welcomed by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine after Hague landed at the Krayniy Airport with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague and Ovchinin arrived from Zhezkazgan after Russian Search and Rescue teams brought them from the Soyuz landing site. During the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft's climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition.

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

[centaurinasa]

https://twitter.com/FMBA_of_Russia/status/1050405604047671296

[JonathanD]

Well they walked away from it, I guess that means it was a good landing 

Easy to forget just how small that descent module is.  Not a lot between you and a high G re-entry!

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1050388545523916800

[JonathanD]

Reminder when they talk about first and second stage re: Soyuz, the four strap on liquid boosters are "stage 1" and the center core is "stage 2" and there is an upper stage 3 after that (in this launch configuration).

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1050382180130742273

[HarryM]

It looked in the video like one of the 4 stage 1 boosters was hanging on and whipping around (the one on the top right in the video)

[Jeff Lerner]

I know it's too early but is there a reflight possibility for this crew...??..my recollection is that on a previous Russian aborted mission, that crew got a reflight ...I could be misremembering..my point is they're already trained...find the problem, clear the Soyuz for RTF and use the same crew....everyone else shifts right one mission...heck, I believe the Apollo 11 crew were told if they need to abort the landing they would get a reflight ...??..anyone remembers that ??

[eric z]

 The photo in reply #266, to me, is one of the great "Space" photos of all-time. Nick IS an astronaut now, regardless of how high the trajectory took them! Glad this had a safe landing, even if the flight duration was on the short-side...

[jacqmans]

Expedition 57 Crew Returns to Baikonur (NHQ201810110010)

Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, is welcomed by Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Sergei, after Ovchinin landed at the Krayniy Airport with Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague and Ovchinin arrived from Zhezkazgan after Russian Search and Rescue teams brought them from the Soyuz landing site. During the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft's climb to orbit, an anomaly occurred, resulting in an abort downrange. The crew was quickly recovered and is in good condition.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

[jacqmans]

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

[JonathanD]

Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, is welcomed by Russian Orthodox Priest, Father Sergei, after Ovchinin landed at the Krayniy Airport with Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

"See?  This is why we do the holy water!"

[jacqmans]

MEDIA ADVISORY: M18-151

NASA to Air International Space Station Update Briefing Today

NASA will hold a news conference at noon EDT today, to provide a status update on the International Space Station following this morning’s Soyuz spacecraft abort during launch that ended with the safe landing of two Expedition 57 crew members.

The briefing will originate from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and air live on NASA TV and the agency’s website.

The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying Nick Hague of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:40 a.m. EDT (2:40 p.m. Baikonur time). Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster and the ascent to orbit was aborted resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft in Kazakhstan.

Search and rescue teams were deployed to the landing site, and Hague and Ovchinin were recovered from the capsule and are in good condition. They were then transported to the launch site at Baikonur, where they were greeted by their families, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, and other NASA and Roscosmos officials.

The news conference participants are:

•   Kenny Todd, International Space Station Operations Integration Manager
•   Reid Wiseman, Deputy Chief Astronaut

U.S. reporters who would like to cover the news conference in person must request credentials from the Johnson newsroom as soon as possible by calling 281-483-5111.  Reporters who would like to participate by telephone must call the newsroom by 11:45 a.m.

Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Prokopyev, who arrived at the station in June, were informed of the launch abort and are continuing to operate the station and conduct important scientific research.
More information on the launch abort is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/mediaresources

Get breaking news, images and features from the space station on social media at:

https://instagram.com/iss

and

https://www.twitter.com/Space_Station

[lucspace]

Hard to catch in the video, but there are a few 'extra' objects in the rocket's vicinity just after staging. The rocket itself indicated by the long green arrow, separated boosters by short ones, extra objects by red ones.

[eeergo]

For reference, the Soyuz Escape System in its deployed configuration (the stack would have been missing the tower above the fairing in this abort of course, as mentioned before). Source: https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2010/07/05/sas-rescate-de-una-soyuz/


Also, in this video you can see the RDG motors firing in a "nominal" full abort (starts at 0:49, RDGs at 0:55)