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Progress Cargo Vessel Arrives At Space Station
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2006 The Russian Progress 22 automated cargo spacecraft has docked with the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday carrying more than 2.5 tons of fuel, water and other supplies aboard, NASA announced Monday. Progress also brought to the station more than 1,900 pounds of propellant, just over 100 pounds of air and oxygen, almost 250 pounds of water and almost 2,860 pounds of dry cargo. Its sister cargo carrier and a predecessor at the station, Progress 20, was undocked from the station on June 19. Russian controllers de-orbited and destroyed with its load of trash and station discards on re-entry. What was left of the craft landed in the western Pacific Ocean. Progress 21, which arrived at the station April 23, remains at the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module. It is scheduled to be undocked and deorbited on Sept. 13. Progress 22 may face a more dignified future than its predecessors, which in effect became big garbage cans. Plans call for Progress 22 to be used after it is unloaded as a closet. It will provide additional stowage space, rather than act as a trash receptacle. Many items eventually to be stowed aboard will be delivered by space shuttle Discovery on STS-121, scheduled to launch Saturday. Most Progress 22 unloading will be done after Discovery's departure. Related Links Space Station at NASA Space Station at ESA
Progress Supply Ship Heading Toward Station
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 26, 2006Russian controllers sent a new automated Progress supply spacecraft toward the International Space Station on Saturday. Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Progress 22 will have the distinction - at least for a while after its unloading - of serving as a closet rather than a garbage can for the orbiting laboratory. |
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