Progress cargo ship to make second attempt to dock with ISS.

MOSCOW, July 4 (Itar-Tass) - Specialists of Russia's mission control
centre and the ISS crew on Sunday will take a second attempt to dock a
Progress cargo ship that failed to dock with the International Space
Station after flying past the facility in a rare failure.
The Progress M-06M cargo ship, launched on June 30, is carrying 2.6
tonnes of fuel, food and water for the six astronauts on the station. The
docking is scheduled for 20:00 Moscow time, an official at the mission
control centre told Itar-Tass.
If the cargo ship fails to dock automatically again, the ISS 24 crew
commander Alexander Skvortsov and astronaut Mikhail Korniyenko will dock
the ship manually.
On Saturday, specialists of the mission control centre outside Moscow
made two corrections of the orbit for Progress and reprogrammed it. This
will make it possible for the cargo ship to take a second automatic
docking attempt.
Including Skvortsov and Korniyenko, there are currently six astronauts
aboard the ISS. The others are Americans Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Doug
Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian Mikhail Fyodor Yurchikhin.



.Primorsky territory governor briefs Medvedev on region's situation.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 4 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
has met with Primorsky Territory governor Sergei Darkin to discuss the
social and economic situation in the region.
"The region's unemployment is 2.9 percent, it tumbled now. There are
30,000 jobless persons in the region," Darkin briefed the president on
Sunday adding that 59,000 new jobs will appear in the Primorsky Territory.
He noted that at present, 15,000 people from non-CIS countries work in
the region. "At the same time 90 percent of those employed at the
construction sites of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit are
Russians, half of them come from other Russian regions and another half
are residents of the Primorsky territory," Darkin said.
The governor stressed that the APEC summit due in 2012 gave a serious
impetus to the region's development.
Speaking about the region's total wage arrears Darkin said they
reduced from 100 million roubles in 2009 to 5 million roubles in 2010.
The governor underlined that the region's shortage of kindergartens
persists and 14,000 parents queue up to get a seat at kindergartens. At
the president's instruction the region injected funds into the
construction of new pre-school institutions.



.Russia's Pallada begins training voyage.

VLADIVOSTOK, July 4 (Itar-Tass) - The world's fastest sailing ship,
the Pallada, begins its training voyage from Vladivostok on Sunday.
The ship of the Vladivostok-based Far Eastern State Technical
Fisheries University will bring 130 Russian students for salmon fishing to
Iturup Island in the Kuriles.
After this it will sail en route Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Japan's
Nagasaki, South Korea's Cheju and China's Dalian.
In Nagasaki the Pallada will take part in a sailing ship festival and
in a regatta from Nagasaki to Cheju. Then it will sail to China.
On its way back it will take students from Iturup and return to the
port of registration on September 7.
The Pallada was built at the shipyard in Poland's Gdansk in 1989. It
has the length of 108 meters. The ship has sailed 500,000 nautical miles
for 12 years and called at over 100 ports in 35 countries. During one of
its voyages the ship's cruising speed reached 18.8 knots.

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