MOSCOW – An unmanned Russian supply ship bound for the International Space Station failed to reach its planned orbit Wednesday, and pieces of it fell in Siberia amid a thunderous explosion, officials said.
A brief statement from Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, did not specify whether the Progress supply ship that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan had been lost.
But the state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Alexander Borisov, head of a the Choisky region in Russia's Altai province, as saying pieces of the craft fell in his area some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) northeast of the launch site.
Better keep one of our shuttles handy...
ReplyDeletethat's what you get when you outsource. we used to be the greatest nation on earth
ReplyDeleteAny of you who cheered the end of the shuttle program feel a bit differently about our astronauts "hitching a ride" with the Russkys, now?
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