Russian ooops
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Russian ooops
This didn't seem to make a very big splash, but a Russian supply ship failed to lock on to the space station. It stopped a couple of miles away.
The supplies aren't critical, and I imagine that they will get things hooked up eventually.
What's really somewhat amusing is that I think that a manual docking option was intentionally left out of the design for this ship. They actually did not even want to include an abort function that the space station could activate, in case of a failure. However, they did put that in.
Reminds me of various designers that I worked with over the years, " Why would anybody want that?"
Pun time -- Russian faces are RED over docking failure
The supplies aren't critical, and I imagine that they will get things hooked up eventually.
What's really somewhat amusing is that I think that a manual docking option was intentionally left out of the design for this ship. They actually did not even want to include an abort function that the space station could activate, in case of a failure. However, they did put that in.
Reminds me of various designers that I worked with over the years, " Why would anybody want that?"
Pun time -- Russian faces are RED over docking failure
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