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Soyuz spacecraft carrying humanoid robot fails to dock with space station
MOSCOW, Aug 24, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russia’s first
humanoid robot on Saturday failed to dock automatically with the
international space station, Moscow news agencies reported.
The craft launched a repeat of the docking manoeuvres after the failure of
the first attempt, which had been scheduled to take place at 0530 GMT, the
agencies said.
Live broadcast of the event on the Russian space agency Roskomos was
interrupted with the Soyuz spacecraft about 100 metres (yards) off the ISS.
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