Truemors
The Automated Transfer Vehicle is about 14 minutes to docing with the International Space Station. The docking procedure is a bit dangerous so the Flight Crew has a destruct mechanism close in hand in case anythng goes wrong.
Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) "Jules Verne" is in the final stages of docking with the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 14:41 GMT - though this may be delayed 15 minutes.Following nearly a month of on orbit operations - including two successful demonstration days, controllers in France, the United States and Russia will carefully monitor the unmanned vehicle, along with its five tons of cargo, as it docks with the Station for the first time.
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