Cargo Vessel Docks With Space Station
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian cargo ship carrying food and supplies docked with the International Space Station just weeks before a new crew is to arrive.
The unmanned Progress M-54 lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days earlier.
The space station’s two-man crew, Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips, will unload nearly 2.8 tons of fuel, food and water, along with a replacement cartridge for the orbiter’s oxygen generator. A replacement crew is scheduled to head to the station Oct. 1.
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