I am glad I am not stuck on the ISS. The Soyuz escape capsule expires in around the end of this year and the crew would have to use it by January or remain on station. The next available capsule is in mid-2019, maybe.
"On Thursday morning, Ovchinin and Hague stuffed themselves into a tiny space capsule atop a 150-foot-tall (45 metre) rocket.
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft system, as the rocket and capsule is called, lifted off from a launch pad in Kazakhstan around 8:40 am UTC and zoomed toward space.
But about two minutes after liftoff, when the rocket was mostly out of sight from the ground, a second-stage booster on the rocket failed as four large side boosters were jettisoned.
That's when an "ABORT" light appeared in the cabin and, about a second later, the system automatically ejected the capsule, Kenny Todd, the space station's Mission Operations Integration Manager, said during a press briefing on Thursday.This is the moment of today's Soyuz rocket failure. It happened as the 4 side boosters were being jettisoned. That's where the investigators will be looking. pic.twitter.com/97mVV6xhi3— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) October 11, 2018
Todd couldn't say whether the second-stage rocket exploded or simply lost thrust, but estimated the crew ejected some 30 miles (48 km) above Earth, which is halfway to the edge of space."
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-s-rocket-failure-leaves-them-grounded-and-the-iss-crew-marooned-on-the-edge-of-space?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1
From the previously linked article, an epic photo:
"German astronaut Alexander Gerst was photographing the launch from aboard the ISS when the Soyuz failure occurred. He managed to capture a view of the capsule as it ejected from the rocket."
"German astronaut Alexander Gerst was photographing the launch from aboard the ISS when the Soyuz failure occurred. He managed to capture a view of the capsule as it ejected from the rocket."
Here is the launch video:
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