Russian rocket launch of 3 astronauts to ISS targeted for March 23 after abort

A brown-and-white rocket stands upright on a launch pad as two metallic skeletal structures fall away from it.

A Russian Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to send three astronauts toward the ISS on Saturday (March 23), two days after a rare abort scuttled its first try.

The rocket was supposed to launch the crewed Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Thursday (March 21) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. That attempt was aborted just 21 seconds before liftoff, however, after some of the rocket's hardware experienced an unexpected voltage drop.