Staying Station-ary

"Three departing Expedition 24 crew members will spend at least
another day on the International Space Station following an
unsuccessful attempt to undock their Soyuz spacecraft overnight."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

/dps

On Sep 24, 3:07*am, snidely wrote:
"Three departing Expedition 24 crew members will spend at least
another day on the International Space Station following an
unsuccessful attempt to undock their Soyuz spacecraft overnight."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Okay ... they are down now ... some sort of sensor issue spoiled the
first attempt. Same link.

/dps

Well, its better to err on the side of caution than find you have a leak
when you ignore an error.

Brian

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On Sep 24, 3:07 am, snidely wrote:
"Three departing Expedition 24 crew members will spend at least
another day on the International Space Station following an
unsuccessful attempt to undock their Soyuz spacecraft overnight."

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Okay ... they are down now ... some sort of sensor issue spoiled the
first attempt. Same link.

/dps

On Sep 25, 12:48*am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Well, its better to *err on the side of caution than find you have a leak
when you ignore an error.

Yes. This from a NASA posting in sci.space.news is about as much
detail as I've seen:

"The undocking and
landing occurred a day later than planned because of a hatch sensor
problem Thursday night. That problem prevented hooks on the Poisk
side of the docking mechanism from opening. Station crew members
installed a series of jumper cables, bypassing the sensor, and the
Poisk module hooks retracted. "

/dps