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(From right) Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin and Commander Oleg Kononenko, both cosmonauts from Roscosmos, train for the arrival of the Russian Progress 72 (72P) resupply ship. The Expedition 59 duo inside the Zvezda service module practiced using the TORU, a backup manual docking system, to guide the 72P to a docking in the unlikely event the resupply ship’s automatic Kurs docking system failed.

Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin and Commander Oleg Kononenko

iss059e007838 (April 1, 2019) --- (From right) Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin and Commander Oleg Kononenko, both cosmonauts from Roscosmos, train for the arrival of the Russian Progress 72 (72P) resupply ship. The Expedition 59 duo inside the Zvezda service module practiced using the TORU, a backup manual docking system, to guide the 72P to a docking in the unlikely event the resupply ship’s automatic Kurs docking system failed.

Image Credit: NASA
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