talking about the international space station itself it is a very large station in fact if you spread it out over a football field an american football field including the end zones it's a pretty big place in livable space it's about the size of a five bedroom house and has two bathrooms and it is comprised of sixteen different pressurized modules which they've been putting together over the past few years now it's relatively old in terms of space the first zarya module was launched in one nine hundred ninety eight but it has been continuously inhabited and it for about eleven years in fact in november it will reach its eleven year anniversary there's a crew of six on board right now and what this progress module was about ready to deliver was food oxygen supplies as well as personal items and hygiene items for that crew of six which are on board right now another function that this progress module was to do was to help boost the space station into a specific orbit there are about six hundred times a year that the space station has to maneuver whether to avoid space debr

bush mission of being felt much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operation glamorous always keep in mind that possibility of a big cargo space ship not docking to the international space station for some reason so that crew on board pairs enough of water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo spacecraft arrive to the space station time then maybe on the side of ross cosmos russia's space agency but the loss has still raised significant alarm bells there's no use of a rocket carrying. a crew is slightly different but not more that much different than the one that was the progress they're going to want to make sure anything that is similar could go on that why you want what happened when we should say why there was more turbulence of russia's space program back in december when three glow ness satellites the country's alternative to g.p.s. plummeted into the pacific ocean with this latest setback roscosmos has been forced to tighten quality control and hope there won't be a repeat

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noise it was like three bangs one really loud and he quieter it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft ascended into orbit a signal failure here meant the third station a sequence in this part of the rocket was an activated as a result it failed to ignite and propel the progress out of the earth's atmosphere . teams have be sent to southern siberia out-i republic to look for signs of any wreckage amid fears toxic fuel may seep into the surrounding soil and water supply so far they've drawn a blank but already the repercussions of the bush mission of being fails much further afield with the question of how to resupply the international space station proving the most pressing. operational planners always keep in mind the possibility of cargo space ship not booking through the international space station for some reason so the crew on board pairs enough off water and food supplies to survive on for another three or four months until their cargo

progress into orbit puts the entire manned space program in question now now saying the international space station could have to be abandon its size launches don't resist soon resume but space expert mark himself says there is no viable alternative to the long serving russian rocket the soyuz is a very reliable vehicle but it's still got something like a one in fifty a little part of the money fifty failure rate so as long as you're using expendable vehicles this sort of failure is bound to happen you know every fifty years to sixty eight flight the soyuz is a more reliable system in the shuttle remember the shuttle did not have an escape system so when it failed the crew were in very serious trouble whereas the soyuz has a very effective escape system so both the rocket and the escape system have to fail before the astronauts are in any danger. this week north korea announced its readiness to resume international talks over its disputed nuclear plans the news came as the country's leader made a rare trip abroad to meet president dmitri medvedev and discuss among other things a vital energy deal f

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was carrying up to three tons of fuel and food supplies for the crew for the crew on the international space station and it's fear that worst crew may have to leave the international space station is currently six of them are there because there might not be enough supplies for them for them to last with that current crew number. you see with this but it's not exactly the first place recently and. it's not last december was the first of four spec failures in russian spacecraft the globe navigation network three of its satellites crashed into the into the sea last december in february a ministry of defense satellites stopped working properly and in all this year just a few days ago in fact a newly launched satellite went off orbit and went off the radar screens so this is the fourth era as it were in the russian space program made all the more important by the fact that the u.s. has just retired very recently its last space shuttles and it will be having stopped those missions the international space station is now reliant. on soyuz rockets fired up from baikonur so much cause for concern because of

which we do not have, you might end up losing the space station altogether. >> hurricane aye rian monitor this evening by the crew of the international space station. the astronauts can continue their work for several more months. the problem with the russian rocket system has not been solved, the orbiting laboratory will have to be abandoned. >> difficult days in the space program. we are returning to the unfolding events in the victory at the hunt continues for muammar gaddafi. reports of continued fighting in some parts of the city. joining me now is a retired general. thank you for coming in. there has been a lot of criticism. it took longer than people expected and there was a long stalemate. when we look at tripoli, has it been a success? >> you have to say it has been a success so far. it has been a struggle for nato and some of its nations. it has been a struggle for the u.s. to stay in the background and provide what leadership it can. a lot of assets on the u.s. have been involved. we are now where we are. tripoli appears to be seen to be taken. hopefully what will evolve in libya will be some sort of representative governm

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s now for more on how this incident a kid and what it means for those on board the international space station we can now hear from my colleague shown thomas what we know is that stage three fails to ignite which is the stage that propels it further into space stages one into both ignite at the same time at the actual time of launch but then there are sensors that communicate with the third stage of the rocket which you can see here and it's that third stage which propels the progress craft up out of the earth's atmosphere so that it can then be in orbit and then synchronize with the international space station in terms of what does this mean for the international space station and the crew on board we should note that there is no routine to space flight there's always an inherent danger but there is no immediate threat to the crew on board right now because they have enough supplies right now we are told that they have about three months of regular supplies left as well as an additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and necessary items for every crew member on board. let's che

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