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The first manned mission to the International Space Station since a Russian rocket failed to launch earlier this month may take off on 3 December, space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. A Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut were forced to abort their mission on 11 October and perform an emergency landing after a launch accident that Roscomos said was caused by a faulty sensor. The accident was the first serious launch problem experienced by a manned Soyuz space mission since 1983, when a crew narrowly escaped before a launch pad explosion. [caption id=“attachment_5480671” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Artists impression of a spacecraft docked to the ISS. Image courtesy: Futura Science/Keith McNiell[/caption]
Sergei Krikalyov, a senior Roscosmos official, was quoted by state news agency TASS as saying the next manned launch had been planned for mid-December, but that Russia was trying to bring the date forward so that the ISS is not briefly left without a crew.
The three-person crew may return home on 20 December, he was quoted as saying. “The industry is making significant efforts to move the launch to 3 December so that the station does not switch to autopilot mode, and landing is expected around 20 December,” he said.
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