The incident with the ship “Union” will not affect the timing of the return of the ISS crew – a REGNUM

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Moscow, June 10, 2015, 03:43 – REGNUM The NASA are confident that the launch of a non-standard motor ship “Union” docked to the International Space Station will not affect the timing of the return station crew to Earth. This was stated by the official representative of the incoming the structure of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Kelly Hampfris , transfers NTV.

is currently working on the ISS Anton Shkaplerov (Roscosmos), Samantha Kristoforetti (ESA) and Terry Verts (NASA), according to the plan should be to return to Earth on June 11.

As reported IA REGNUM , June 9 during a routine test radio rendezvous and docking of the ISS and the spacecraft “Soyuz”, the position of the station has changed little. This happened due to the fact that the “Union” docked to the ISS, Nonstandard start the engine, resulting in a slight change in the station’s orbit.

At the moment, to investigate the cause of what happened, but Roscosmos has said that threats the station and the crew there.