25 Apr 2013 15:13

Nothing will prevent docking of Progress with ISS - RKK Energiya

KOROLYOV (Moscow region). April 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Specialists from Mission Control and RKK Energiya continue their attempts to open the antenna on the spacecraft Progress, but nothing will prevent the spacecraft from docking with the ISS even of they fail to do so, Vitaly Lopota, president and general constructor at RKK Energiya, told Interfax-AVN on Thursday.

"We will try to open the antenna on the Progress once again. Even if it doesn't open, we will dock with the ISS in an automatic mode. A reserve teleportation manual docking mode is also possible," Lopota said.