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ISS is only able to communicate with ground control every 90 mins. as the station passes over ground stations in Russia. This is not an unprecedented event, but any loss of communications not good. American, 2 Russians on the station.

A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan on Sunday, carrying three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station, where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic....

Pieces of the unmanned supply ship, bound for the International Space Station, fell in Siberia amid an explosion, officials said.

A runaway supply ship that failed to dock at the International Space Station on Friday made good on a second attempt Sunday afternoon.

The unmanned Russian Progress 38 cargo ship launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 30, 2010 carrying 2.5 tons of supplies for the station's Expedition 24 crew. An unmanned Russian cargo ship has veered out of control near the International Space Station, sailing clear past the orbiting lab instead of docking on autopilot, as engineers on Earth struggle to determine what went wrong.