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Expedition 57 Launch (NHQ201810110004)
The launch of Expedition 57 where MS-10 was inside of

Soyuz MS-10 was a manned Soyuz spaceflight which aborted shortly after launch on 11 October 2018 in Russia. The mission lasted roughly 30 minutes before being aborted.

MS-10 was the 139th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. It was planned to transport two members of the Expedition 57 crew to the International Space Station. A few minutes after liftoff, the craft went into contingency abort due to a booster failure and had to return to Earth. Both crew members, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, were recovered alive in good health.

The MS-10 flight abort was the first instance of a manned booster accident at high altitude in 43 years, since Soyuz 18a similarly failed to achieve orbit in April 1975.

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  • Expedition 57 Crew Farewell (NHQ201810110002)

    Nick Hague (above) and Aleksey Ovchinin (below), pictured at Pad 1/5 before launch.

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