On this day in 2018, the Soyuz MS-10 mission was to take Роскосмос cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Nick Hague to the International Space Station for a multi-month stay. However, upon separation of the four strap-on boosters at T 118 seconds, one of the boosters collided with the core stage of the Soyuz FG rocket due to a sensor pin having been damaged during the rocket's assembly. The rocket spun out of control, and the automated laun