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After rocket failure, Russia moves up its next launch. NASA says it is okay with that.

November 9, 2018 at 12:43 p.m. EST

The Russians move fast. After one of their rockets malfunctioned last month, triggering an automatic abort, Roscosmos, the country’s space agency, says it knows what happened and how to fix it. Instead of delaying the next flight with astronauts — originally scheduled for Dec. 20— it is moving up the launch to Dec. 3.