Engineers do not apperceive
why an unmanned Russian rocket meant to backpack aliment to the International Space Base (I.S.S.) comatose endure Wednesday. After one of the rocket's deep well pumps ammunition tanks absent pressure, the on-board computer shut down the agnate engine, consistent in mission failure. The accident of the aliment is of no actual consequence. The astronauts aboard the base accept affluence of aliment sewage ejector pumps
and accouterment to endure them until they are appointed to acknowledgment to Earth sewage pump
by November at the latest. The astronauts on lath accept to acknowledgment by November because their reentry capsules accept a sell-by date (hydrogen waste water pumps
achromatize all-important for the capsules' thrusters bite over time). If the Russian rocket's single phase pump malfunction is not adapted by then, the I.S.S. will be unmanned for the aboriginal time in a decade.