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Sputnik International
issue is getting food and other supplies back up there. since the u.s. retired the shuttle program a little while ago, the only way to get anything up there is on the shoulders of the russians. and after a failed launch of their progress rocket a couple of weeks back, you may remember we reported on that, they re trying to launch another batch of supplies at the end of on. so if that launch and only if that launch is successful, a mid-november launch will bring up a brand new, fresh group of astronauts to resume work on the space station which is expected to be in use, jenna, until 2020. i mean, that s the life expectancy of this. but they ve got to get supplies back up there. jenna: so jon scott could go with them, right? reporter: i think that they would love to have jon onboard. jenna: be a nice kind of field report. jon: i would well, i m not sure i would want to ride that russian rocket these days. [laughter] jenna: we ll see what we can do. rick, thank you very much. we ll
parts on it. that s really critical, because with the space shuttle going away in the next year or so which is the biggest cargo carrier there is, these supply ships will be doing a lot of heavy lifting and bringing up supplies. if for some reason they cannot get this to work, they will be able to get other supply ships up. one thing we can mention is what went wrong the other day. what happened was a signal sent between the space station and the progress rocket that basically measures the distance between the two as the progress is docking, in other words, it tells it how far apart they are. that s critical so you don t bump into the station hard. that signal was being interrupted. the onboard computers on the progress told it, oh, no,