ISS crew news conference canceled over loss of spacecraft - spokesman
STAR CITY, near Moscow. May 7 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center has canceled a preflight news conference on Friday for the International Space Station's next prime and backup crews.
A Cosmonaut Training Center spokesman said the reason for the cancellation was "the ongoing work of the state commission that is investigating the causes of the abortive launch of the Progress resupply spacecraft" on April 28, and that the new date for a news conference "will be announced additionally."
The next crew was due to take off for the ISS on May 26.
The spokesman also said a planned meeting on Friday of an interagency commission for approving the prime and backup crews for this month's flight aboard a Soyuz spacecraft had also been called off. The meeting had been scheduled to take place in Star City at 3 p.m.
Earlier, a Russian space industry source told Interfax-AVN that the flight would be put off by between six weeks and two months because of the Progress accident.