After a botched docking attempt, Russia delivers a humanoid robot to the space station
A new Russian humanoid robot arrived at the International Space Station on August 26th. It was the only crew member of a Soyuz rocket that launched to orbit on August 22nd from Kazakhstan. The mission called for flying the Soyuz without a human crew in order to test new upgrades and software and to deliver this android to the ISS.
Getting to the station was a bit of an ordeal for the robot. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally supposed to dock with the ISS on August 24th, but the meet-up was aborted when the vehicle started moving unexpectedly as it approached the station. Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, found that there was a problem with the port the Soyuz tried to dock with: one of the components on the station’s automatic...
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