MOSCOW, Russia — The head of a Russian commission investigating the incident said Thursday that the launch failure last month of a manned mission to space was caused by a damaged sensor.
He said the sensor had been damaged during the Soyuz rocket's assembly at the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
A Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut were forced to abort their mission on October 11, after a rocket bound for the International Space Station failed.
They were sent plunging back to earth in an emergency landing.
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The head official told reporters that two more Soyuz rockets may have the same defect.
He said additional checks were being introduced into the rocket assembly process.
The Russians also released dramatic video of the launch from cameras mounted on the doomed rocket.
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