Before leaving the space station, the Progress 47 spacecraft conducted a test of an upgraded docking system that Russia intends to use on future unmanned Progress and manned Soyuz vehicles.
MSN: Unmanned Russian cargo ship says goodbye to space station
The Russians also are preparing to launch a Progress supply ship to the space station on Tuesday.
To conduct the test, the Progress 47 initially undocked from the space station on July 22.
MSN: Unmanned Russian cargo ship says goodbye to space station
Late on Friday, the unmanned Russian Progress 46 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station.
FORBES: Progress 46 Successfully Docks With International Space Station
Following a full briefing, the Chinese will make plans for their next manned mission, the Shenzhou-10, as the country steadily makes progress toward its goal of having a permanent space station in orbit between 2020 and 2022.
Currently, the Administration is proposing to proceed with progress payments to the Russian Space Agency for the International Space Station, even though it cannot or, in any event, will not make the certification required by the Iran Nonproliferation Act (one of whose prominent sponsors was Senator Joseph Lieberman) that the Russian agency is not helping Iran with ballistic missile technology.
Currently, the Administration is proposing to proceed with progress payments to the Russian Space Agency for the International Space Station, even though it cannot -- or, in any event, will not -- make the certification required by the Iran Nonproliferation Act (one of whose prominent sponsors was Senator Joseph Lieberman) that the Russian agency is not helping Iran with ballistic missile technology.
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In the meantime, NASA must depend on Russian Progress cargo craft as well as European and Japanese transports for space station resupply.
Yesterday, the Russian space program successfully launched its Progress spacecraft, which is set to dock with the International Space Station on Wednesday.
This comes as a pretty big blow to the Russian space program, which had just emerged from its failed launch in April to have successfully launched its Progress 45 unmanned spacecraft and also successfully docked it with the International Space Station.
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On August 24, a Progress M-12M space freighter carrying food and other items to the space station broke up over southern Siberia after failing to separate from its Soyuz-U carrier rocket, RIA Novosti reported.
The Progress spacecraft being delivered by the rocket is unmanned, and filled with supplies for the crew of the International Space Station.
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