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The crew have landed safely
Update 8 - (fixed typos, disregard edit time) During a Q&A, its said that the Launch Escape System was used to escape a faulty booster, causing an acute onset of approx 7g. The crew is now back with medical professionals and their families in Baikonur, where they will remain for the day. Q&A (now concluded) on NASA's channel
Update 7 - Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin are seen in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan boarding a plane, continuing from the landing site where they safely returned to Earth after a Soyuz launch abort earlier today. @NASA on twitter
Update 6 - The crew have landed by helicopter in Zhezkazgan. They are being medically cleared before heading to Baikonur. Looking good considering the circumstances! One Two
NASA release statement on incident
Update 5 - The crew members boarded helicopters and headed to the Zhezkazgan airport in Kazakhstan. A NASA plane will meet with astronaut Nick Hague. Reports say they are in good condition and experienced around 6 to 7 g's during the descent.
Brief statement by Jim Bridenstine
Update 4 - Search and Rescue have reached the crew. The crew have left the capsule, and are now being prepared to return to Moscow.
A commission is being formed to investigate the incident. A press conference will take place at a later date (not today, date unspecified. If anyone has more information than I do, please share so I can update this.) Check the sticky below for additional information and updates.
Update 3 - The crew landed 20km east of Kazahkstan town Zhezqazghan, over 400 km away from Baikonour. (thanks /u/scottm3 )
Update 2 - It is expected to take around an hour and a half to reach them. They had a very steep landing and were exposed to heavier g's than normal. Initial reports are that they are okay.
Update 1 - The crew have landed, Search and Rescue are in contact with them now. They are reported to be in good condition.
They are in a ballistic re-entry mode. The crew will not be going to the ISS, and they are doing a sharp landing back to Earth. More information will be provided as soon as possible.
Nasa live feed (Now concluded and restarted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0 ( thanks /u/pinky1995 )
Can't find a good place to fit this, but I wanted to share an Interesting snippet from a BBC article
The onboard astronauts were certainly aware that something was not right because they reported feeling weightless when they should have felt pushed back in their seats.
While there have been American countdown aborts and a case of abort-to-orbit during the Shuttle program, I beleive all prior sub-orbital aborts with people on them were all flown by Russians.
Note that Hague is not the first American to perform a planned suborbital flight, as these have already occured with X-15, Mercury-Redstone, and SpaceShipOne.
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