Russian cargo ship docks with ISS Moscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2010 A Russian cargo ship carrying more than 2.6 tonnes of freight, including DVDs and chocolate, docked Friday with the International Space Station (ISS), the control centre said. Launched from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, the Progress spaceship docked with the ISS at 0426 GMT, said a control centre spokesman, Valery Lyndin, adding that the docking was done automatically. Among the cargo carried by the Pogress M-04M ship were water, fuel and oxygen as well as chocolate and DVDs for the cosmonauts aboard the station, Lyndin told AFP.
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Russia Sends Space Freighter To ISS Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 04, 2010 Russia launched on Wednesday a Progress cargo spaceship on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. A Soyuz-U carrier rocket carrying the Progress M-04M freighter lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 06:45 Moscow time (03:45 GMT) and is expected to dock with the ISS on February 5. "The launch ... read more |
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