Cargo ship docks with international space base
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An unmanned Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station yesterday following a string of failed attempts to resupply the orbital laboratory.
“The transport cargo ship Progress M-28M docked with the ... Russian segment of the ISS at 10:11am Moscow time,” Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, said in a statement.
The ship was carrying more than 2,300 kilograms of oxygen, fuel, food and scientific equipment, as well as personal packages for the crew.
Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko, and American astronaut Scott Kelly are part of Expedition 44 currently in space, to be joined by three more people later this month.
Commander Padalka is scheduled to return to Earth in November, while Kornienko and Kelly are part of a yearlong mission that will end next March.
The Russian crew members oversaw the automatic docking of the Progress, which arrived after circling Earth 34 times following its launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday.
“Congratulations guys, your cargo ship has arrived,” Padalka could be heard telling ground control after contact was complete, according to NASA.
The Progress will remain docked to the ISS for four months getting filled with trash and discarded gear before it journeys back to Earth, burning up on reentry.
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