The Russian spacecraft that failed to dock at the International Space Station two weeks ago has safely crashed back into the Earth.
Out-of-control spacecraft crashes into the Pacific Ocean
NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos report that Progress 59, which launched on April 27th on a supply mission to the ISS, re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 10:04PM ET last Wednesday night.
NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos report that Progress 59, which launched on April 27 on a supply mission to the ISS, re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 10:04PM ET last Wednesday night.
NASA footage shows the Progress 59 spinning uncontrollably in space after it had launched successfully from Kazakhstan.
The US space agency said, in a statement, that the craft was not carrying any critical supplies and that the Russian and American sides of the ISS were "adequately supplied well beyond the next planned resupply flight."
Around a ton of material was expected to have survived the craft’s re-entry into the atmosphere, but what was left of the Progress 59 was not a danger to people on the ground as the craft landed somewhere in the central Pacific.
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