Three crew members are safe after their scheduled launch to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was automatically aborted Thursday morning, according to a live NASA broadcast.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus were expected to lift off aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 9:21 a.m. ET and arrive at the space station about three hours later. But 20 seconds before the launch was to occur, an automatic abort was triggered after the second of two umbilicals, or service towers, up against the side of the Soyuz rocket, failed to initiate an engine sequence start.
The crew’s next opportunity to launch is Saturday morning, but that depends on whether engineers can determine the cause of the automatic abort and if it can be resolved in time. Currently, it is unknown whether the abort will impact the launch of a separate cargo resupply mission, expected to launch at 4:55 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral in Florida and dock at the space station Saturday morning.
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