08.10.2019 - 21:51 [ RT ]

Putin decorates NASA astronaut Nick Hague with Order of Courage over failed Soyuz launch

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were all set to join the ISS in October 2018 when their Soyuz launch was dramatically aborted just minutes after take-off due to a booster malfunction. It was the first such failure for a Russian manned space launch for decades.