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08-30-2011, 02:12 AM
The International Space Station may have to start operating without a crew in November if Russian engineers don't figure out soon what caused a recent rocket failure , NASA officials announced today (Aug. 29).
The unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 44 crashed just after its Aug. 24 launch to deliver 2.9 tons of supplies to the orbiting lab. The failure was caused by a problem with the Progress' Soyuz rocket, which is similar to the one Russia uses to launch its crew-carrying vehicle -- also called Soyuz -- to the station.
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