The expedition, delayed on the ISS because of the “Progress”, will return June 11 – BBC Russian

• June 5, 2015

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Delayed due to accident spacecraft “Progress-M27M” return with the International Space Station expedition is scheduled for June 11.

This was told the head of the Russian Space Agency, Igor Komarov. According to him, the next crew to the station in late July.

On the ground must return flight engineers – Russian Anton Shkaplerov, Italian astronaut of ESA Samantha Kristoforetti and American Terry Vёrts.

In early July will be the first after the accident launch of a space truck” Progress ” to the ISS.

Carrier rocket “Soyuz” with the cargo ship “Progress” was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 28 but the ship was unable to fly to the station – it began to commit an uncontrolled rotation and did not respond to commands from the ground.

According to preliminary reports, the accident occurred due to depressurization of the oxidizer tank and fuel tank in the future of the third stage of the launch vehicle.

The spacecraft “Progress” is used to supply the space station for nearly 40 years. They have established themselves as a very reliable machine – in the history of operation since the end of the 1970s of the last century have been lost two machines, and both are due to a malfunction of their systems.