Martin Lewis, who posts his images on the website Skyinspector | The 20-year-old Pirs was scheduled to leave the orbiting lab tomorrow July 23 to open a slot for the Russian |
Initially known as GOES-17, and GOES-S before that, an on-board computer reset triggered by the satellite forced it into a safe-hold mode at 1:37 am ET yesterday.
They will travel in a capsule with the bigge | The Russian Multipurpose Research Module MLM , also known as Nauka, blasted off toward the International Space Station at 10:58 EDT 14: |
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- It's been a month since the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft carried the three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, to China's space station |
As one of the most important missions for the manned space program, the Shenzhou-12 is a display of China's latest space technology.
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