Moscow, 26 Aug (EFE).-Russia deck to postpone the launch of the next Soyuz spacecraft with three crew aboard after the catastrophe with the cargo ship Progress which crashed on Wednesday in Siberia, today reported a source of aerospace Russian.

“It is speaking bring forward the launch of Progress M – 13 M from 28 to 14 October and defer of the Soyuz TMA-22 from September 22 to November”, said the source at the Russian agencies.

In this way, he added, “the cargo ship would be sent to the international space station (ISS) before the manned spacecraft” not to take risks with cosmonauts to Board

The Russian space agency Roscosmos intends to test the operation of the rocket carrying Soyuz-U similar to which failed this week for the launch into orbit of the Progress M – 12 M, carrying nearly three tons of vital cargo to the ISS.

Progress freighters and ships Soyuz carrier rockets are equipped both with engines PD-0110 in its third stage.

Therefore, the current six crew of the orbital platform will have to remain in their jobs longer foreseen.

The expedition consisting of the Russian cosmonauts Alexandr Samokutiáyev and Andrei Borisenko and American Ronald Garan, who arrived in April to space, ingenuity will have to remain, predictably, two weeks at the station.

Meanwhile, Russian Sergei Volkov, American astronaut Michael Fossum and Satosi Furukawa Japanese might have to delay its return to Earth for a month, until the end of year.

Despite the crash of the Russian freighter, the six crew members of the station have enough food, oxygen and fuel to two or three months, so no risk for its work and physical integrity, according to Roscosmos and NASA coincide.

Due to accident, Russia has suspended the activities of the Soyuz rocket, which forced them to postpone the launch of the satellite navigation Glonass-M which was scheduled for today.

The suspension of the Soyuz launches came two days after Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, it announced equal measure with respect to the rocket carriers Proton accelerators blocks Briz-m.

The Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has ordered Roscosmos tougher quality controls in the production of space equipment and parts thereof, especially before its release.

The first accident in the history of Progress, used since 1978, comes three weeks after Russian freighters and Soyuz ships became the only link between the Earth and the ISS, following the retirement of American ferry.EFE