Supply Ship for Soviet Space Station Burns Up
An unmanned cargo transporter that brought fuel and equipment to the Soviet space station Mir separated from the orbiting complex on Sunday and burned up in the atmosphere, Tass news agency reported.
Since its launch on May 21, the Progress 30 transporter had formed part of a “space train” of vehicles, which also included Mir and its experimental research module Kvant.
Cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Alexander Laveikin have been in space for 164 days, developing programs for the intended eventual permanent manning of Mir.
They will be visited next week by two other Soviet cosmonauts and Syrian air force pilot Mohammed Faris, who will be the second Arab to go into space.
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