Russia’s Progress 59 Becomes Unexplained Launch Casualty

Credit: ISS: NASA
HOUSTON – Russia’s troubled Progress 59 cargo spacecraft is unable to dock with the International Space Station and will make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, U.S. and Russian flight controllers told the orbiting lab’s six-member crew on April 29. A Russian exchange with...

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