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1 of 2 | The formation of a Soyuz rocket for illustration this one, pinch 3 unit members aboard including an American, was aborted Thursday pinch 20 seconds near connected nan countdown erstwhile engines did not fire. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls | License Photo
March 21 (UPI) -- A Russian Soyuz rocket motorboat pinch NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson connected committee was aborted conscionable earlier liftoff Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The rocket was expected to leave nan Baikonur Cosmodrome successful Kazakhstan and caput to nan International Space Station pinch Dyson and 2 cosmonauts aboard. The formation was scrubbed aborted 20 seconds earlier liftoff.
Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Belarus spaceflight subordinate Marina Vasilevskaya will effort again arsenic early arsenic Saturday.
NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said, according to Space.com, said an automatic strategy triggered nan abort erstwhile engines did not occurrence arsenic planned. Engineers from nan Russian abstraction agency Roscosmos quickly arrived astatine nan motorboat pad to region nan unit and make judge nan rocket was secure.
"The conveyance is safe, each fueling operations person ceased," Navias said. "All information commands person been provided onboard and nan rocket truthful there's nary threat to nan crew. They are perfectly safe."
Officials said erstwhile they get astatine nan International Space Station, Dysons and Novitskiy are to enactment for six months. Vasilevskaya is to beryllium connected nan abstraction position for 12 days and return to Earth pinch nan existent Expedition 70 unit presently connected board.
