MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Progress cargo space ship has successfully docked back to the International Space Station's (ISS) Pirs docking port after a test of the upgraded manual docking system, NASA said Friday.
Russian resupply ship redocks to Pirs docking port at 2:05am ET in successful test of manual rendezvous system. https://t.co/qpVGYItRFZ
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The test, carried out by Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, included an automatic undocking of the ship from the ISS and the two Russian cosmonauts manually guiding it back.
