Progress fails to dock with ISS

In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
The Progress 38 cargo spacecraft suffered a communications failure and
flew past the ISS earlier today rather than docking with it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38060650...science-space/

Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control"

They are also mentioning how Progress 37 had to be docked manually.

What is the antonym for progress?-)

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On Jul 2, 11:37*am, Rick Jones wrote:
In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:

The Progress 38 cargo spacecraft suffered a communications failure and
flew past the ISS earlier today rather than docking with it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38060650...science-space/

Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control" *

They are also mentioning how Progress 37 had to be docked manually.

Google News now let's you add your own sections, so I put in a "Space"
section, and this story was right there at the top. Close behind is
stuff about adding space to Cobo Center in Detroit.

/dps "all your cadets are belong to us"

The Progress 38 cargo spacecraft suffered a communications failure and
flew past the ISS earlier today rather than docking with it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38060650...science-space/
I suspect Trotskyite Wreckers are responsible, but Glenn Beck thinks it
is the work of Marxist Progressives.
Come to think of it, Trotskyite Wreckers and Marxist Progressives might
be the same thing.
Courage, comrades!

Pat

In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
On 7/2/2010 10:37 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control"

It's now apparently drifting away from the station while slowly
spinning.

Not unlike Frank Poole?-)

Oh joy - so it is on the verge of being a big honking peice of space
junk. With an orbit not far from that of the ISS.

rick jones
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I have to wonder if there are some Congresscritters from the likes of
FL and LA and perhaps UT who are hoping Progress 38 cannot dock to the
ISS and they can use that for a reason to further extend Shuttle.

Perhaps the Counterrevolutionary Hooligans of which Pat speaks were a
group of Congressional aides on a junket to a Russian Cosmodrome?-)

rick jones
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On 7/2/2010 10:37 AM, Rick Jones wrote:


Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control"

It's now apparently drifting away from the station while slowly spinning.

They are also mentioning how Progress 37 had to be docked manually.

What is the antonym for progress?-)

Counterrevolutionary hooliganism.
That may explain the slow spinning - it has lost its bearing on the True
Red Path and is engaging in deviationism by counter-revolving.

Pat

On 7/2/2010 12:07 PM, snidely wrote:


Google News now let's you add your own sections, so I put in a "Space"
section, and this story was right there at the top.

You do realize that Google is going to use that data on what you are
interested in to better target you for advertising, don't you?

Pat

On 7/2/2010 10:37 AM, Rick Jones wrote:

Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control"

Newest update is that they are going to attempt to figure out what went
wrong and get it back under control overnight and tomorrow, setting up
for a docking around noon EDT on July 4th.
Let us hope we do not see any fireworks then, and that the spacecraft's
hooliganism has been fully eradicated from it by the time it docks:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/ex...02progress38p/
Let Socialism Be Your Guide!

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
The Progress 38 cargo spacecraft suffered a communications failure and
flew past the ISS earlier today rather than docking with it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38060650...science-space/
I suspect Trotskyite Wreckers are responsible, but Glenn Beck thinks
it is the work of Marxist Progressives.
Come to think of it, Trotskyite Wreckers and Marxist Progressives
might be the same thing.
Courage, comrades!


The real question is where is Jim Oberg.

--
Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 18:37:51 +0000 (UTC), Rick Jones
wrote:

In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
The Progress 38 cargo spacecraft suffered a communications failure and
flew past the ISS earlier today rather than docking with it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38060650...science-space/

Space.com's article claims it "veered out of control"

They are also mentioning how Progress 37 had to be docked manually.

What is the antonym for progress?-)

That would be Congress...

take care,
Scott
Hey, somebody had to say it