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Docking system to help future missions dock with the space station and, lastly a space suit. you may recall that about two years ago or so a astronaut nearly died after his space suit started filling with water. it was a major malfunction. this resupply mission was carrying a replacement space suit up to the station. its now been lost. >> amazing stuff. thank you. nbcs tom costello. when we come back how did richard matt and david sweat stay ahead of authorities? weve got the latest detail on ...

>> a new docking system for the iss and spacex as well as microsoft hollow lashes. spacex will also make its third attempt to land the craft vertically on a platform that will be reused. really interesting there. new reports revealing the devastating hack attack on the office of personnel management is even more damaging to national security than officials had previously said. a senior u.s. official saying that the foreign hackers compromised intimate details of government workers, including p...

>> well, its a clear-cut case of at first you dont succeed, try and try again. an unmanned russian spacecraft finally docking at the international space station after a failed attempt last week. progress, 47 cargo ship separated for testing and things went awry with the new docking system. todays connection, much more successful. and the ships faulty docking system will be sent back to earth for some tweaking. by the way, progress 47 mission to take out the trash, from the iss, reburned as the s...

>> well, its a clear-cut case of at first you dont succeed, try and try again. an unmanned russian spacecraft finally docking at the international space station after a failed attempt last week. progress, 47 cargo ship separated for testing and things went awry with the new docking system. todays connection, much more successful. and the ships faulty docking system will be sent back to earth for some tweaking. by the way, progress 47 mission to take out the trash, from the iss, reburned as the s...

>> well, its a clear-cut of >> if at first you dont succeed try try again. a unmanned spacecraft after a failed attempt last week. the progress 47 cargo ship separated from the station a week ago but things went awry with the new docking system. todays connection much more successful. the ships faulty docking system will be sent back to earth for tweaking. progress 47s mission to take out the trash. garbage to be burned as the ship reenters earths atmosphere. a member of the house armed services...

Unmanned spacecraft after it failed big time in space again. the unnamed and rather unmanned progress as its named cargo ship, the progress unable to make progress and dock with the international space station. it was going to perform engineering tests and try new docking system. the progress will make another attempt on sunday, god willing. >> turns out those pricey light bulbs are good for the environment but could be bad for people. >> so what? >> a new study found the invisible u.v. rays giv...

That russian cargo ship. instead of coming in making the final approach and then docking, what happened is it flew on by by two or three kilometers. the problem is the cosmonauts on board the international space station dont have the power to manually override the system. they cant steer it in themselves. were told that mission control in moscow may have the ability to manually override that system but its never been tried. and tonight, they do not want to start trying now. >> and this isnt the ...

Listen. >> they have been very insistent on using this automated docking system. it never has worked that well. this brings up the fact that were now going to be dependent on the russians entirely for cargo and crews. >> when he talked about dependent on the russians, he means that we are now down to the final two space shuttle missions. after that, john, we have to hitch a ride with the russians to the international space station. >> what happens now? do they start docking this thing again? >> ...