Newslink: How a Flight Delay Sparked Diplomatic Hiccups for a VIP Plane Headed to Soyuz Rocket Launch
Several hours of diplomatic negotiations ensued as a plane — full of roughly 60 VIPs, journalists and astronaut family members en route to the Expedition 58 launch activities — experienced a forced detour.
Newslink: Russian Soyuz Rocket Will Launch Astronauts to Space Station by Christmas, NASA Chief Says
The next set of International Space Station crewmembers should get off the ground before the end of the year despite the Soyuz rocket failure earlier this month, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said today (Oct.