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Tariq Malik

Russian Soyuz rocket suffers rare last-minute abort during launch of 3 astronauts to ISS (video)

A Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts is seen on the launch pad with the crew waving farewell in an inset.

Update for 1 p.m. ET: The abort of today's Soyuz launch may have been due to a dead battery. "The reason has been identified, we just discovered at a meeting of the state commission that the reason was a voltage drop in the chemical current source," Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov said in a statement posted to the Russian space agency's Telegram account today.

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