Space: failure to progress cargo berthing delays return Samantha – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

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13:20 May 8, 2015

(AGI) – Bolzano, May 8 – Failure docking of Progress M-27M cargo, disintegrated in the atmosphere and disintegrated last night in the Pacific, has caused a real clogging space. Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian astronaut, will fall not ‘more’ on May 14 next and will remain on the ground ‘on the International Space Station for about a month. The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft, carrying over the 38 year-old Italian astronaut also Russian Anton Shkaplerov and American Terry Virts, should fall on the ground on June 11, a date which currently appears to be the most ‘accredited but that did not It had assurances from the international space agencies. Failure docking of Progress M-27M cargo has brought a change of all activities’ docking and undocking the International Space Station. The crew of the mission in orbit 42/43 ‘Futura’ does not allow the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-17M initially planned for May 26.
The Russian astronaut Oleg Kononenko, the Japanese Kimiya Yui and US Kjell Lindgren leave for the ISS on June 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Precisely for this reason, the return trip to earth of AstroSamantha and companions may be anticipated by a few days. (AGI) bz1 / PGI.