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Russian Shuttle Fails to Dock With Space Station, Interfax Says
Russian Shuttle Fails to Dock With Space Station, Interfax Says
24 Aug 2019, 01:27 PM IST
(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.
To contact the reporter on this story: Scott Rose in Moscow at rrose10@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Sonali Pathirana at spathirana@bloomberg.net
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