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'We will fly again': Nasa to keep using Russia's Soyuz despite failure
After Russian-American crew made emergency landing, chief of US space agency predicts return to flight by December
Agence France-Presse
Fri 12 Oct 2018 23.07 EDT
Nasa’s chief has praised the Russian space programme and said that he expected a new crew to go to the International Space Station in December, despite a rocket failure.
Jim Bridenstine spoke to reporters at the US embassy in Moscow a day after a Soyuz rocket failure forced Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff in Kazakhstan. The pair escaped unharmed.
“I fully anticipate that we will fly again on a Soyuz rocket and I have no reason to believe at this point that it will not be on schedule,” the Nasa administrator said.
It was the first such incident in Russia’s post-Soviet history - an unprecedented setback for the country’s space industry.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/13/we-will-fly-again-nasa-to-keep-using-russias-soyuz-despite-failure
