Russian Shuttle Fails to Dock With Space Station, Interfax Says

(Bloomberg) -- An unmanned Russian Soyuz spaceship was unable to dock with the international space station as planned, Interfax reported, citing a NASA broadcast.

A second attempt will be made overnight from Sunday to Monday after some equipment aboard the space station is replaced, the Russian news service reported. The Soyuz spaceship is carrying a robot nicknamed Fedor that has been a recent focus of Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency.

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