Docking Attempt News Today

Because, of course, it would not have enough propellant on board to stay there. spacex and nasa saying they are working on fixing this routing problem of this video link. now the video link, just to be clear, theyre seeing it here on the ground in mission control. its just the international space station that is not getting that link just yet. spacex saying that they will be passing over a ground station very soon. to be able to try and fix that. and theyre -- sorry, were getting updates in real...

John, put this in perspective for us. exactly what happened there? >> t.j., as you pointed out, it is, in fact, an unmanned progress resupply shift, a russian resupply ship, and they do, in fact, make very periodic stops to the space station, dropping off all kinds of cargo, supplies for the crews up there, the six-member crew up there, whether its water, whether its food. anything and everything that they might need up there. and what happened was, during the docking attempt, and its on the rus...

Opportunity? >> yes, we do have some control of this vehicle, and yes, there are six people on the station at this time. and no, they are not in any danger at this time. >> well, maam, how does this happen? do these things happen every once in a while, just kind of a fluke event? >> this is kind of a fluke event. we normally dont have any problems with progress dockings. we dock those every few months. so this is an unusual event. >> any percentages you could put on the chance of once you make a...

Folks, and im trying to get this to you. uncontrollable rotation during an attempt to try to dock what the international space station. now, this is a russian supply spacecraft, so this is a russian supply spacecraft. this was not an american vehicle, apparently. but this is a russian spacecraft that was trying to dock with the international space station, and something went wrong. so now they have this vessel essentially up there right now thats floating around, and they dont know what the taem...

President obama, as well. going to be speaking at that same event here in just a moment. we will take you back there live when it happens. i do want to get to a bit of news that we are just getting. a breaking story. and stay with me here on the camera. i need to pick something up from the printer. im away from it. but were just getting this, having to do with something going on in space right now, folks. an unmanned cargo vessel, were told, is essentially just floating around somewhere up in ...

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