Launch of Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft cancelled at last minute


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Mar 2024

A view shows the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with the International Space Station (ISS) crew formed of NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus inside it, on the launchpad shortly before the launch got cancelled, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which was meant to carry Russian and Belarusian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), was cancelled at the last minute on Thursday.

"Launch!" mission control said as the rocket was shown at its launch site at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with its main supports shown moving away.

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