The launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft with one Russian cosmonaut and one U.S. astronaut on board failed Thursday due to a carrier rocket malfunction, Russian news agencies reported.

　　The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-10 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia are making an emergency landing after a Russian booster rocket carrying them into orbit to the International Space Station has failed after launch. [Photo: AP/Dmitri Lovetsky]

　　The crew members are alive but are experiencing an overload. The spacecraft is likely to make an emergency landing in Kazakhstan.