Some heart pounding moments last night for space aficionados around the world, as the two-person crewed Soyuz rocket took off from the Kazakh launch base and then had to abort high above the Earth.

Follow the headline link and scroll all the way to the bottom to follow the launch from the start, scrolling up to reveal the sequence.

And watch the video embedded below to see the moment when everything went bad.

Both astronauts are back and safe on the ground.