Damaged Russian ship docks with space station

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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian cargo spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station, despite the failure of an antenna on its navigation system to deploy.

The unmanned Progress cargo ship was launched Wednesday from Russia’s main space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The antenna didn’t deploy when the craft reached orbit and Russian mission control tried repeatedly to prod it into action.

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