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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Thu May 7, 2015, 11:31 AM May 2015

Progress spacecraft plummets to Earth this evening

Source: CBC

An out-of-control, unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft that malfunctioned on its way to the International Space Station last week will fall to Earth this evening.

As of Thursday mid-morning, the Progress 59 M-27M spacecraft was expected to fall between 6:13 p.m. ET and 9:51 p.m. ET Thursday, the Russian space agency Roscosmos reported.

The ship is expected to burn up nearly completely in the Earth's atmosphere, and only a few small pieces will reach the planet's surface, Roscosmos said.

They should be similar in size and nature to those that fall to Earth when a Progress spacecraft normally burns up in the atmosphere after making a successful delivery to the International Space Station, Roscosmos added.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/progress-spacecraft-plummets-to-earth-this-evening-1.3064787

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Progress spacecraft plummets to Earth this evening (Original Post) Bosonic May 2015 OP
Okay. Android3.14 May 2015 #1
Jade Helm 15 OldRedneck May 2015 #2
WRONG.... It's a sneak attack on China groundloop May 2015 #3
It's a chance for FEMA to arrest us all because we will be Lint Head May 2015 #4
I hope there's a Tea Party or Koch gathering meeting in its trajectory. Myrina May 2015 #5
You fools can believe this "out-of-control' crap. I know who is really responsible. I am smart. BlueJazz May 2015 #6
Ship won't go vkkv May 2015 #7
They are far from home BumRushDaShow May 2015 #8
Progress is the moth, gravity makes the flame seveneyes May 2015 #9
Russian space equipment is not the best Not water May 2015 #10
 

OldRedneck

(1,397 posts)
2. Jade Helm 15
Thu May 7, 2015, 11:55 AM
May 2015

The burning spacecraft plummeting through the atmosphere will be the signal for the troops conducting Jade Helm 15 to start seizing guns, arresting patriots, and opening the FEMA concentration camps beneath the shuttered WalMart stores!!!

You heard it here first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

groundloop

(11,488 posts)
3. WRONG.... It's a sneak attack on China
Thu May 7, 2015, 12:41 PM
May 2015

The craft is expected to come down over western China around 8 PM EST tonight, obviously Russia and the US are planning a joint attack on China in order to gain control of China's vast natural resources.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
5. I hope there's a Tea Party or Koch gathering meeting in its trajectory.
Thu May 7, 2015, 01:51 PM
May 2015

"A message from the sky" ...

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