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Docking, the progress lost its tillimetry dock, so when they lost that lock, we were not able to dock, of course. and at that point, the resupply ship flew past the space station. it flew past at a distance of about 2 miles, 3 kilometers, is what we were saying. that's about 2 miles. so everything at this point is the managers are looking at the situation, making an assessment of whether or not we will make another attempted to to dock or what the plan is. so things are right in progress right now. also with the progress vehicle. so -- >> is there any -- frankly, i know we always have folks up...

Again, keeping an eye on news getting out of nasa that, in fact, a cargo vessel, an unmanned vessel was attempting to dock with the international space station. something that, at least according to nasa, kind of a routine thing they do often, don't have any problems. but this time there was a problem and it missed that docking opportunity. so now it essentially just floated by the international space station. so what happens to it now is the big question we have right now. we are told, in fact, though, there are six astronauts on the international space station that's usually manned but no da...

Have a cargo carrier, the europeans have a cargo carrier, and the russians do, as well. so it's not like they're going to run out of supplies up there. it's just important to keep everything stocked. >> all right. john, we absolutely appreciate you jumping on the line here, because you know we needed help navigating all things nasa sometimes. and you are our guy. john zarrella, good to talk to you as always. and reiterating for our audience, it was an unmanned -- an unmanned supply cargo vessel that was trying to dock, send supplies to the international space station. it missed that docking op...