MOSCOW, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The launch of a Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station was canceled at the last moment Thursday.
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with a crew from Russia, Belarus and the United States, was scheduled to launch at 4:21 p.m. Moscow time (1321 GMT) on Thursday. The flight was canceled automatically at the last minute before the launch.
The crew were evacuated safely after the cancellation of the launch, TASS news agency reported.
A second attempt to launch the spacecraft will take place no earlier than Saturday, according to a NASA statement. ■