NASA Carried Out Independent Investigation Of Soyuz Incident - Rogozin

NASA conducted an independent probe into the October accident with a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th November, 2018) NASA conducted an independent probe into the October accident with a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said Monday.

An accident occurred minutes after the liftoff of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with two new members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew on board, a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut. An emergency escape capsule allowed the crew to return to Earth safely.

"Our colleagues have shown mathematical models of the October 11 situation ... US colleagues, since the crew was mixed, carried out an independent investigation as well," Rogozin said at a press conference.

A Russian panel looking into the accident released the results earlier in November.