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[b]Soyuz TMA-12M docking to space station delayed[/b] The arrival of Soyuz TMA-12M at the International Space Station, which had been planned for six hours after its launch on Tuesday, will now take place on Thursday night (March 27), the result of a missed engine firing. Flight controllers at Russia's Mission Control Center outside Moscow have reverted the flight to the backup 34-orbit rendezvous, which has re-targeted the docking for 6:58 p.m. CDT (2358 GMT). This longer rendezvous was the standard flight profile until last year; Soyuz TMA-12M would have been only the fifth mission to follow the accelerated timeline. As the TMA-12M crew follows the revised schedule, flight controllers are reviewing the data to determine why the third thruster burn did not occur as expected. Initial information indicates the spacecraft may not have been in the proper orientation.
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