'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
Nasas 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 Russias post-Soviet history - an unprecedented setback for the countrys space industry.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/13/we-will-fly-again-nasa-to-keep-using-russias-soyuz-despite-failure