The failure was caused by a problem with the Progress' Soyuz rocket, which is similar to the one Russia uses to launch its crew-carrying vehicle — also called Soyuz — to the station.
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - a Soyuz rocket carrying an American astronaut Lu and Russian cosmonaut Malenchenko blasted off for the international space station on Saturday.
His finger is poised over the Manual Fire button in case the thrusters don't kick in at the right instant, which could cause the Soyuz to skip off the edge of the atmosphere like a stone on a pond.
In the full resolution version of this image, you can also see the Soyuz capsule.
A European freighter is due to arrive Thursday, joining Japanese and Russian cargo ships and two Soyuz crew capsules.
The pair performed external experiments on the Salyut station and remained outside their Soyuz capsule for more than three-and-a-half hours.
Not since 1975, when a Saturn IB rocket launched an Apollo capsule to meet a Soyuz spacecraft from the Soviet Union, has a non-shuttle rocket sat atop a NASA launch pad.
The Americans had Project Mercury, the Russians the Soyuz programme - and we had the Albert memorial.
Russia halted space tourism this year after the crew size was increased, using the seats in Soyuz that would have been sold to paying travelers.
In 2009 Laliberté became the seventh civilian to spend a two-week vacation aboard the ISS by way of a ride on a Russian Soyuz capsule, arranged by Space Adventures.
Instead, the astronauts were ordered into two Soyuz space capsules that are attached to the station as lifeboats.
The first clown in space, Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte, arrived safely back on earth Sunday touching down in a Russian Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan, the Russian mission control centre said.
HOUSTON — NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko safely launched to the International space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Friday.
The Soyuz wasn't able to send the high quality pictures back to Earth live.
讓空間站持續工作到2028年的進一步行動正在籌備中；由於太空穿梭機將要退役，接送人員的任務將會留給俄羅斯的Soyuz太空艙。
During launch of the Soyuz craft, cosmonauts experience four times the force of gravity.
For now, astronauts and cosmonauts who become critically sick or injured at the international space station-- something that has never happened-- can leave the orbiting outpost220 miles above Earth and return home within hours aboard a Russian Soyuz space vehicle.
Under the contract modification, the Soyuz flights will carry limited cargo associated with crew transportation to and from the station, and disposal of trash.
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