Just on the day, when the space shuttle Discovery landed safely on Earth, after accomplishing its 13-day mission successfully at the International Space Station (ISS), the Soyuz capsule of Russia was docked manually with the ISS, after a problem occurred in its automatic docking system.

Russia's Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft, carrying the Hungarian-born US billionaire and space tourist, Charles Simonyi, ultimately docked with the ISS successfully, after a last-minute problem with one of its engines, after the automatic mode of the space capsule failed.

Vladimir Solovyov, Roscosmos flight director, reported that just a few minutes before the Soyuz space capsule was scheduled to dock with the ISS, an autopilot signal of the space craft went off, indicating that one of its engines had failed. He told that the Russian spacecraft engineers then directed Gennady Padalka, the captain of the spacecraft to dock the spacecraft manually.

The mission control spokesman, Valery Lyndin told that the commander of Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka docked the space craft manually at 1304 GMT, after the automatic mode of the space craft failed. Lyndin said, "At the last stage of the docking process, the crew had to switch into manual mode, which Padalka did. This is not unusual. Now everything is fine."

The incident of manually docking the Russia's Soyuz spacecraft has raised the brows of space scientists about the Russia's reliable spacecraft. Russia's Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on Thursday, carrying the famous US space tourist, Charles Simonyi, who was touring space for second time. Russia has been sending most of crews and cargo to the multinational ISS, since the US Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas, in 2003, killing its all seven crew members.