The crew of the aborted Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launch is ready to continue its space flights, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, the mission commander, said on Wednesday.
ZVEZDNY GORODOK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th October, 2018) The crew of the aborted Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launch is ready to continue its space flights, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, the mission commander, said on Wednesday.
On October 11, an accident occurred during the launch of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague on board. The Soyuz-FG was set to deliver the spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Ovchinin and Hague safely returned to Earth in an escape capsule.
"The crew is feeling good. The crew is ready to continue further space flights," Ovchinin told reporters on Wednesday at a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the Moscow Region.
On Tuesday, Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said that Ovchinin and Hague would fly to the ISS in spring 2019, as all the future teams until then had already been formed.
The incident became the first failure of a manned space launch in modern Russian history. The crash is being investigated by a special commission of Roscosmos. All manned launches from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan have been suspended until the commission finds out the causes of the failure.
