Soyuz MS-14, an unmanned spacecraft, was launched August 22, 2019 to the International Space Station. It was the first unpiloted mission of the Soyuz program to the ISS and the first Soyuz crew vessel without a crew in 33 years.
Its mission was to test a modification of the launch abort system. Its first attempt at docking with the ISS on August 24 was unsuccessful and cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin commanded it to back a safe distance away from the space station. They tried again, this time using a manual docking procedure and successfully docked with the ISS on August 27.
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