Oops. Unmanned capsule misses space station An unmanned Russian cargo ship sailed past the International Space Station instead of docking on autopilot, as engineers on Earth struggle to determine what went wrong. A telemetry lock between the Russian-made Progress module and the space station was lost and the module flew past at a safe distance. [...]
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