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Thank for your expertise. >> good talking, dana. >> dana: close call for an american astronaut and his russian counter part after they were forced to make an emergency landing when their booster rocket headed to the international space station failed right after launch. we have the story live from washington. kristen? >> reporter: dana, this is the exact kind of scenario is why they spend years training for these flights. so many people and so much complicated equipment had to work quickly in order to get this astronaut and cosmonaut back to earth safely. his whole family was on the ground wat...

Parachute back to earth after the failure of a booster rocket. >> both survived miraculously. they're in good condition. these are images of the men getting their medical tests after landing. they had been headed to the international space station for a six-month stay. fred is on the story with the latest of what happened. >> hi, poppy. it certainly was a miraculous get away for the two men with the head of the agency saying neither of the two men have any sort of trauma. very good news. they just came back to the cosmodrome where they took off earlier today. it was a miraculous escape. they b...

Rocket took off when apparently there was a malfunction with the booster rocket and you can hear the commander of the vessel, the russian astronaut, he said we are going to separate and he run firmed there was a separation, and that means they took the capsule the astronauts were in, and they been et inwent into a descent and then the parachutes deployed, and then the capsule the astronauts were in landed on the ground and immediately there were crews on the ground to get the astronauts out, john. >> reporter: fred, thank you so much. a remarkable story there. looking forward to getting much

>> sandra: two astronauts safe after a dramatic emergency landing. they are booster rocket feeling less than 2 minutes after launch on what was supposed to be a trip to the international space station. christian fischer has more on the aborted space mission. kristin. >> alternately, they are okay. but what a terrifying few minutes i must have been for them, for their families that were on the ground watching. after about 2 minutes, the booster rocket suffered engine failure. they immediately aborted the mission, which scented back towards earth. 6.7 jeez, that is much higher than usual, but st...

Space flight, he'd been training stuff isn't getting done. for five years and dreaming of it his whole life. >> bret: let me turn to the but 2 minutes in the booster big international story, rocket suffered some kind of failure to recurring and dismissing saudi journalists. let's see how the u.s. is automatic aborts and sending the crew into a harrowing dissent, dealing with it. >> we are looking at it very pulling g-force is much higher strongly and we will have a than usual before landing in a report out soon. remote town in kazakhstan. we are working with turkey and for the nasa administrat...