Progress

Russia's Progress M-28M spacecraft carrying 2.4 tonnes of cargo docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, breaking a string of failed attempts by Russian and US spacecraft.

The docking took place in automatic mode, according to an official of Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, ITAR-TASS reported.

Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver said on Wednesday he did not think ?anything inadvertent? would happen to derail progress towards a solution on the Greek crisis.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has confirmed that its crippled unmanned cargo spacecraft Progress will disintegrate Thursday night or early Friday morning, RIA Novosti reported.

According to Roscosmos, the stricken spacecraft was expected to burn up on re-entry in the Earth's atmosphere with just a few small pieces likely to survive the heat to hit planet's surface.

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said on April 29.

Russian flight control has lost the ability to rein in unmanned space vehicle “Progress” according to a Russian Space Agency official.

According to the statement, “Progress” was meant to resupply the ISS, but control was lost and the spacecraft is heading towards earth in an uncontrolled fashion.

An unmanned U.S. supply rocket exploded shortly after lifting off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia, the first disaster since NASA turned to private operators to run cargo to the International Space Station.