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Soyuz: creepy docking
Moscow, Russia - Approach stage by "excessive speed": control center orders to turn the automated docking system into that manual
The Soyuz TMA-5 arrived Saturday to the International Space Station (Iss): the space shuttle took off last Thursday from the Russian cosmodrome in Baikonur with aboard Leroy Chiao, Salijan Sharipov e Iuri Sharghin (see for details AVIONEWS). There was a bit of excitement when occurred the linkup maneuver: when the ISS was only 200 metres distance, a Soyuz sudden acceleration forced the Koriolov (Moscow)...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency