Cargo shuttle successfully docks with space station
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January 31, 2011, Monday
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RUSSIAN Mission Control says a cargo spacecraft has docked at the International Space Station, delivering food, fuel, oxygen, scientific equipment and packages for the American-Russian-Italian crew.
The unmanned Progress M-09M blasted off on Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome carrying more than 2.6 tons of supplies.
Mission Control said it docked yesterday using automatic systems.
The cargo included birthday presents for commander Scott Kelly, who turns 47 on February 21. The American astronaut's twin brother, also an astronaut, is married to Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman who survived being shot in the head.
RIA Novosti news agency said the food for the six-man crew included pickles by special request from the Russian cosmonauts.
The astronaut husband of the United States congresswoman, seriously wounded when she was shot in the head, will decide by mid-February whether to join the last NASA shuttle launch as scheduled, the space agency said yesterday.
Mark Kelly, the commander of April's Endeavour mission, has been on leave to tend to his wife, Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, since the January 8 -attack in Tucson which killed six and wounded 13.
"I believe Mark is planning to decide in the next few weeks whether he can resume training and of course he will be candid with the space shuttle crew," NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said.
"It is an important thing to them as a family, but they have to balance their priorities," Garver said during a visit to Israel's Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies.
"So I think we'll be having that decision in mid-February."
NASA has a backup crew -member in training for Endeavour, currently scheduled to be the last shuttle flight. But NASA is -hoping for funding to fly an additional shuttle to deliver a year's worth of supplies to the International Space Station.
The unmanned Progress M-09M blasted off on Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome carrying more than 2.6 tons of supplies.
Mission Control said it docked yesterday using automatic systems.
The cargo included birthday presents for commander Scott Kelly, who turns 47 on February 21. The American astronaut's twin brother, also an astronaut, is married to Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman who survived being shot in the head.
RIA Novosti news agency said the food for the six-man crew included pickles by special request from the Russian cosmonauts.
The astronaut husband of the United States congresswoman, seriously wounded when she was shot in the head, will decide by mid-February whether to join the last NASA shuttle launch as scheduled, the space agency said yesterday.
Mark Kelly, the commander of April's Endeavour mission, has been on leave to tend to his wife, Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords, since the January 8 -attack in Tucson which killed six and wounded 13.
"I believe Mark is planning to decide in the next few weeks whether he can resume training and of course he will be candid with the space shuttle crew," NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said.
"It is an important thing to them as a family, but they have to balance their priorities," Garver said during a visit to Israel's Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies.
"So I think we'll be having that decision in mid-February."
NASA has a backup crew -member in training for Endeavour, currently scheduled to be the last shuttle flight. But NASA is -hoping for funding to fly an additional shuttle to deliver a year's worth of supplies to the International Space Station.
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