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His spacecraft sprung a leak. Then this NASA astronaut accidentally broke a record

5:01am January 25, 2024

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record for the longest U.S. space flight, but he wasn't trying to earn that title.

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Smoke rises as first-stage boosters separate from a Soyuz rocket with a Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. The mission was aborted shortly after launch, and the pair returned to Earth safely in an emergency landing.

Rocket Headed For International Space Station Fails, Makes Emergency Landing

5:09pm October 11, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were on board when their Soyuz MS-10's booster malfunctioned. The two made it out safely.

PHOTOS: Astronauts Touch Down After 115 Days In Space

2:28pm October 30, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

A Russian Soyuz space capsule touched down in Kazakhstan on Sunday morning local time, delivering Kate Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi safely back to Earth.

A Russian Progress spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Friday.

Russia Finally Launches Supplies To ISS After Earlier Failures

10:08am July 03, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The liftoff of the Soyuz Progress 60P was a relief to astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station after two previous resupply missions — one Russian and one American — failed.