ROSCOSMOS - ISS "Russian Vehicles" patch.
04/23/2012
April 22 at 18.40 Moscow time, carried out docking cargo vehicle (THC), "Progress M-15M" to the International Space Station (ISS).
Progress-15 arriving at Space Station
THC docked to a docking bay (CO) "Pierce". Convergence process was carried out in automatic mode controlled by the Mission Control Center specialists of FSUE TsNIIMash and Russian crew members of ISS cosmonauts Space Agency Anton Shkaplerova, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko.
Progress-M15 docking
The ship delivered cargo to the station needed to keep the ISS in manned mode and the program of applied research on its board. Among the goods - fuel, water, food, equipment, systems management, communications and life support, supplies of compressed oxygen, medical equipment, personal hygiene and control of purity of the atmosphere and cleaning stations, equipment for scientific research and experiments, additional equipment for the Russian and segments of the American station, as well as parcels for the crew of the ISS.
The ISS crew continues to work 30/31 long expedition in the Commander Daniel Burbank (NASA), flight engineers Anton Shkaplerova (Roscosmos), Anatoly Ivanishin (Roscosmos), Oleg Kononenko (Roscosmos), Andre Cowper (ESA) and Donald Pettit (NASA .)
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=18994
Image, Video, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
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