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Progress returns
On 2 July 2010, the Russian cargo ship Progress 38 failed to dock automatically with the International Space Station (in actual fact, its security system interrupted the procedure due to a loss of radio transmission). Two days later, on 4 July, the spacecraft safely accomplished the manoeuvre. In this photograph, we can see the ISS’s module Zvezda in the foreground with Progress making its approach and the Earth in the background.
Credit: NASA

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