Russian cargo ship redocks with space station

Published July 29, 2012 1:35am ET



MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has redocked with the International Space Station after an aborted attempt five days earlier.

The Progress cargo ship had separated from the station a week ago to perform engineering tests and try out a new docking system and had been due to reconnect with the station on Tuesday. But problems developed with the avionics in the docking system.

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