Booster Problem Causes Soyuz Mission Abort, Ballistic Re-entry

Credit: NASA TV
A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and Russian cosmonaut completed an emergency landing in Russia on Oct. 11 about 40 min. after the first ballistic abort in the history of the International Space Station (ISS) program. First reports indicate astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin...

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