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Russian cosmonauts release a video tour of the ISS s new Nauka module - days after glitch with its jet thrusters briefly sent the space station out of control
Russian cosmonauts shared the first look at the ISS s new module, Nuaka
The upgrade provides a new science facility, docking port and spacewalk airlock for future operations, along with additional crew quarters, a galley and a toilet
Nauka docked with the ISS Thurs, but suffered a glitch about three hours later
Its thrusters shot off that sent the ISS off its normal orbiting route
Roscosmos said Friday it was caused by a glitch and human error
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The crew is resting
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. The International Space Station (ISS) crew is resting, everything is fine aboard the station now, head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin noted. It’s fine aboard the ISS. The crew is resting. I recommend you do the same, he wrote on Twitter.
After the Nauka module docked with the ISS, its thrusters suddenly turned on at 19:45 Moscow time and rotated the station’s normal orientation by 45 degrees. The crew was not in danger. Roscosmos told TASS that the Nauka module was being switched into ‘docked with the ISS’ mode. Remaining fuel in the module is also being dealt with.
The mission comes after more than a decade of delays and as Russia seeks to boost its space industry, which has fallen behind since the collapse of the Soviet Union and struggles to keep up with competition from the United States.
The Nauka module blasted off last week from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carried by a Russian Proton rocket, and represents Russia’s first docking of an ISS module in 11 years.
Earlier, Roscosmos showed the new addition to its segment of the ISS docking with the nadir (Earth-facing) port of the Zvezda service module at 1329 GMT. “There is contact!!!” Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin tweeted.
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