They will postpone the launching of the Russian ship the Soyuz to the Space station

The launching of the manned ship the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M to the Space station the International (EEI), anticipated for 30 next March, will be postponed possibly until April ends or half-full of May, it today advanced a source of the Russian space industry.

The reason for the postponement, that it has at the moment not been confirmed of official way, obeys to the problems that has presented the ship during the security tests, said a manager of the Russian space industry to Interfax agency in conditions of anonymity.

“When putting under on approval the hermetism of the module of reduction of the Soyuz its coating underwent a breakage, thus no longer is used for a manned flight”, it explained.

The source added that it does not give time to prepare another module of reduction for the programmed date of the launching of the Soyuz.

“We do not have any information on postponements”, it said to Efe Alexéi Kuzneetsov, spokesman of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.

On board the Soyuz TMA-04M Russian cosmonauts Guennadi Padalka and Serguéi Revin will travel to the EEI and the American astronaut Joseph Finishes, the 31 members of expedition of the permanent mission in the orbital platform.