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Space Station: the new crew launched, but the docking has been postponed to Friday

Baikonur, Kazakistan - Approach to the orbiting laboratory was not possible due to a technical glitch

The next trio of crew members destined for the International Space Station is now looking forward to a Thursday arrival at the orbiting laboratory after their Soyuz spacecraft was unable to complete its third thruster burn to fine-tune its approach. Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Steve Swanson of NASA were...

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Rome, Italy, 03/26/2014 13:03
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