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First, after the Baikonur accident, the launch of the "Soyuz-FG" rocket will take place on November 16th. Then I try again to send a rocket to the International Space Station.
This writes the Russian edition "RIA Novosti", citing a source in the rocket and space industry.
According to the source, the launch is tentatively scheduled for November 16. The beginning should take place at 21:14 (Kiev time). Then the rocket should put the Progress MS-10 cargo ship into orbit.
There is also information that they are planning an inhabited flight. Its training being conducted in intensive mode, the launch could take place at the beginning of December.
The crew, who are now on the ISS, is due back on Earth on December 20th.
We will recall, on October 11, that a Soyuz rocket with two cosmonauts on board crashed at the start. The two astronauts alive, they made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan. The former astronaut, the station's commander, Chris Hadfiled, suggested that the problem of "the Union" is not so easy to find, so that astronauts remained on the planet. ISS for a long time can stay stuck there.
What is the ISS?It is a space station orbiting the Earth, created for scientific research in space. ISS was a joint project of NASA and Roscosmos. To perform various tasks, astronauts regularly perform EVA. As of May 2017, because of the ISS 200 astronauts in space, for a total duration of 1247 hours and 55 minutes.
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