Posted on 04/28/2015 4:14:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Video from the Progress 59 spacecraft showed it in a dizzying spin, with the Earth and sun rapidly coming into and then out of frame. Russian flight controllers abandoned plans to attempt to dock the cargo ship with the International Space Station on Thursday (April 30), NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in a NASA TV update. That docking — originally scheduled for this morning, then pushed to Thursday — is now "indefinitely postponed," Navias said.
The problems began shortly after Progress 59 launched into space atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 3:09 a.m. EDT (0709 GMT), with the cargo ship packed with just over 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies
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Can’t we sent the Space Cowboys up there to fix it?
I hope the crew on the International Space Station has enough supplies to last through to the next delivery.
Do they?
didn’t they just have a supply launch like 2-3 weeks ago from space x?
Probably.
Wow...if it keeps spinning like that, it won’t take long for the 3 tons of food to be compressed into a 3 ton brick.
Not my fault.
Nor is my coffee involved.
It looks to be spinning once every 3 seconds or so.
It is now a mixmaster.
Live updates here:
Apparently headed towards Ukraine at the moment.
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