Supply spacecraft fails to dock with ISS
Published: 03 July, 2010, 10:04
Edited: 03 July, 2010, 23:36
The Russian supply spacecraft Progress was unable to dock at the International space station on Friday.
Leave it to NASA to come and solve Russia's problems. I wonder if the REAL Silicon Valley will have to come in and fix the problems of Russia's copy Silicon Valley when it is built?
Dustin there wouldn't be any space station if it wasn't the russians
dustin .. nasa had more problems than russia ... so no point to brag










Well this is a rare piece of Space news for the very first time ever a Russian Supply Vehicle does not dock automatically or Manually due to Docking mechanism's inside the Russian vessel failing. If they cannot obtain this vehicle the vehicle will simply begin probably a decaying orbit and simply burn up in re-entry of the Earth atmosphere. However if they can obtain it this will also make more rare news for the first time ever an one probability would be an EVA "Extra Vehicular Activity" will go the furthest from the International Space Station ever in history or simply ask Arianespace the space agency in South America to send up another supply vehicle to the ISS, But these probabilities are simply too far fetched and will likely not happen. So ultimately I think it'll be best to abandon this Russian Supply Vehicle and probably send up another one from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Roscosmos) we shall see. I have been following the progress of the ISS for many years and I've got to say this is the very first time ever I have seen a Supply Ship miss it's target and docking by a hefty three Kilometres in open space but regardless of the distance well at least it poses no threat to the People on the ISS and no one got hurt so that is the good news, so those on board will have to ration what they eat and drink if they come to a food and drink shortage. It could have been a lot more worst if in the reverse it collided with the ISS NASA will have to send up STS 400 rescue vehicle to help rescue those on board the ISS well thank you RT for putting this rare piece of news up as this has opened up a new Space chapter for me.