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Last thing before we go here tonight, the world got very lucky today and so did two astronauts because it is only thanks to dumb luck and an incredible dose of cool and calm that we are not mourning the loss of these two men. these astronauts tonight. as you may know, the international space station is up there orbiting earth at 17,000 miles an hour, circling the globe about every 90 minutes. you can see it in the night sky if you know where to look. and the only way we have of getting crew members up and back is the russian space program. and that's what went wrong today. this very soyuz rock...

A steep ballistic descent and vietnam comfortable right back down to earth and some worrying moments at mission control until we are told now that the rescue forces are in communication with a nikkei intellect feel chinon and we're hearing that they're in good condition those rescue forces having rushed to the site where the capsule came down it might be a setback for russian space program but that's relief all round that taken off chin and landed back on earth. well i'm joined now by young verna he is the director general of the european space agency mr burners good to have you on the show to...

Streets to make a living we meet omar and use them like many refugee children they face abuse and violence as they struggle to help their families make ends meet. on little rock thank you so much for joining us everyone a blow for the russian space program an astronaut and a cosmonaut have been forced to make an emergency landing just minutes after liftoff the pair parachuted down in kazakhstan after a booster on their so use rocket failed on route to the international space station fortunately they are safe and said to be in good health russia says it is suspending manned launches from the ba...

That they're in good condition those rescue forces having rushed to the sites where the capsule came down for hey gander chain in a premature end to their journey to russia another setback in the country's space program. well a for more on this let's bring in david weir russia correspondent in europe where shadow in a moscow. how big of a setback is this for the russian space program and russia in general. yeah this is of course a big blow to the russian space program lyla russia along with the u.s. is a leader when it comes to manned space flights russia has been a very successful in this fie...

Those rescue forces having rushed to the site where the capsule came down it might be a setback for russian space program but there's relief all round that hagan off chin and landed back on earth. well i'm joined now by young virgin he is the director general of the european space agency mr verner's good to have you on the show you know when i saw the close call happened today the first thing i thought about was the challenger disaster back in one nine hundred eighty six i mean we've seen terrible tragedies like this happen shortly after takeoff but we did have a tragedy today can you explain ...