Russia’s Soyuz-FG rocket launch failures affect manned, unmanned spacecraft; astronauts rescued

The booster rocket failure that forced an emergency landing for two astronauts headed to the International Space Station was the first launch accident for Russia’s manned-space program in 35 years. But several launches of unmanned Progress cargo ships have not gone as planned in the past decade.

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