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Oct. 31, 2012
Traveling about 250 miles above Bogota, Colombia, the Progress 49 Russian cargo ship docked at 9:33 a.m. EDT to the Russian Segment (RS) of the International Space Station (at 17:33.46 Moscow time).
Progress-M cargo spacecraft approaching the Station
The craft is delivering almost 3 tons of supplies -- including propellant, oxygen, water, air, spare parts and experimental hardware -- to the six crew members on the orbital laboratory. Progress 49 is scheduled to remain docked to the space station until mid-April.
Docking of Progress M-17M to ISS
A Progress resupply spacecraft performed a same-day rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station for the second time. Progress 48 and 49 verified an abbreviated launch-to-rendezvous schedule designed to reduce the typical two-day flight between a launch and docking. The data may be applied for a similar single-day operation for manned Soyuz missions to the station beginning in 2013.
Docking location at the ISS on the Russian Orbital Segment
Currently, the International Space Station crew works 33/34-y long expedition consisting of commander Sanita Williams (NASA), the flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos), Akihiko Hoshide (JAXA), Oleg Novitsky (Roscosmos), Eugene Tarelkin (Roscosmos) Kevin Ford (NASA).
For information on the International Space Station and the Expedition 33/34 crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station
Report of Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO): http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19655
Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / NASA / NASA TV / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
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