Progress fails to dock with ISS

Pat Flannery wrote:
On 7/2/2010 6:38 PM, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


The real question is where is Jim Oberg.

I imagine he's presently checking up on the specifics of the situation
so he can write a article about it.
Let's face it...figuring out what _really_ is going on versus the
Russian statements about what is going on is like trying to decipher
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It takes a few days.

Yeah, no kidding.

That's the part I'm real curious in. It lost its lock about 25 minutes from
docking. Did it simply drift or was the miss due to an avoidance manevour?
If the former, yet another near miss. If the latter, not quite as bad, but
still troubling.

And during those 25 minutes, what was the crew doing? Where they prepping
the Soyuz or were they confident enough it would be a miss?

Inquiring minds want to know!


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Greg Moore
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