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Topic: Progress M-12M (44P) lost during launch

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-24-2011 11:44 PM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0">[b]Station in "good condition" despite loss of supplies[/b]</font> The International Space Station is in a "good position" to withstand Wednesday's loss of Russia's Progress M-02M, NASA said after a launch failure resulted in the cargo craft crashing back to Earth. "Given the logistics situation on the ISS, particularly having flown [last month's space shuttle mission] and because we're at a higher altitude now, we are in a good position logistically to withstand this loss of supplies," Michael Suffredini, manager of the space station program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, told reporters. "In fact, I would tell you we can go several months without a resupply vehicle if that becomes necessary." <center><iframe width="400" height="255" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/29OIVEIU0W0?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center> The station, said Suffredini, is in good supply to wait, if necessary, for the planned March-launch of the next supply craft, the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). Before then however, three of the station's crew members would need to return to Earth. The next crewed Soyuz launch, Soyuz TMA-22, was scheduled for Sept. 22. If that flight needs to be delayed — the Soyuz and Progress launch vehicles share similar upper stages, which is what failed on Wednesday — then the Soyuz TMA-21 crew could remain aboard the station, but only until October. "This particular crew, their nominal return on the eighth of September resulted in a 162-day period on orbit. We nominally plan for 180 days and in fact, we have about a 30-day contingency on that. So we have at least 40 to 50 days of contingency for the crew to stay on orbit that much longer to allow us to stay at [a six person] crew while they sort out the anomaly," Suffredini said. "Of course, if things extend too long, which we don't have any indication today that's the case but given the anomaly we have to be prepared, there is an ability to operate station with less than six crew if that becomes necessary." "At some point, the [Soyuz TMA-21] vehicle on orbit that has Ron [Garan] and Andrei [Borisenko] and Sasha [Samokutyayev] will time out and so we will have to bring them home. But operating at a three-crew size is something we are familiar with and able to do, although it would have implications in our ability to perform research."</BLOCKQUOTE> <center>[i]<a href="http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum31/HTML/000332.html">See here</A> for discussion of the loss of the Progress M-12M ISS resupply craft.[/i]</center>
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