Space Station Crew's Earth Return Delayed by Russian Spaceship Crash

Three astronauts won't be returning to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday (May 13) after all. NASA and its international partners have delayed the landing of NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti until early June, after learning new details about the recent failure of Russia's robotic Progress 59 cargo spaceship. "The partner agencies agreed to adjust the schedule after hearing the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) preliminary findings on the recent loss of the Progress 59 cargo craft," NASA officials wrote in an update today (May 12). More

(Source: Space.com - May 13)