The Russia’s space agency head has announced on Friday that the two astronauts who escaped the mid-air failure of a Russian rocket would again fly to the space and are slated to provisionally travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of next year.

Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of Russian space agency Roscosmos, was speaking to news reporters a day after Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchnin and American Nick Hague made dramatic emergency landing in the country of Kazakhstan after the Soyuz rocket, which was carrying them to the orbital ISS, failed.

On Friday, Rogozin posted a picture of himself along with those two astronauts and said that both of them have arrived now to Moscow. Both the male Astronauts escaped unscathed and are feeling fine, Roscosmos has said.

The accident occurred due to the first and second stages of a Russian rocket separating shortly after the it was launched from Kazakhstan’s Soviet-era cosmodrome of Baikonur.

The accident on Thursday was for the first time that it was experienced during the launch by a manned Soyuz space mission since 1983. The last one was when a crew narrowly escaped before a launch pad explosion occurred.

According to the Interfax news agency, which cited a source familiar with the Russian investigation, a faulty valve had caused the first stage of the Soyuz-FG rocket to malfunction despite the fact that the valve had been properly checked before it took-off.

NASA has been dependent on Russian rockets to take its astronauts to the space station due to the fact that the United States retired its Space Shuttle programme in the year 2011. But NASA has recently announced that it has got plans to conduct a test flight by carrying two astronauts on a SpaceX commercial rocket next April.

Despite the political relations are at bitter ends between the United States and Russia, but still both cooperate in Space arena. When inquired about the accident, President Donald Trump replied to the reporters that the White House was “not worried” about American astronauts relying on Russia to reach space.

Moscow has taken a decision to suspend all manned space launches, while Rogozin has given order to the state commission to find out what went wrong during the previous launch. The Investigative Committee has also opened up a criminal investigation into the matter.

According to the Interfax, unmanned launched of the Progress spacecraft too may also be suspended. The spacecraft is used to carry food and other supplies to the ISS and uses the same rocket system like that of Soyuz.

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