Progress M-11M cargo craft docks at space station
Delivering three tons of supplies and equipment, an unmanned Russian Progress cargo ship glided to a smooth automated docking with the International Space Station Thursday, two days after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Progress M-11M spacecraft, the 43rd launched to the space station since assembly began in 1998, docked at the Zvezda command module's aft port at 12:37 p.m. Thursday as the two spacecraft sailed 245 miles above eastern Kazakhstan.
"Contact and capture confirmed," cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev radioed from a control station inside Zvezda.
"Congratulations on the auto docking," called a Russian flight controller.
The Program M-11M spacecraft is loaded with 2,050 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water and 2,813 pounds of dry cargo, including food, crew supplies and equipment.
The Progress M-11M spacecraft, the 43rd launched to the space station since assembly began in 1998, docked at the Zvezda command module's aft port at 12:37 p.m. Thursday as the two spacecraft sailed 245 miles above eastern Kazakhstan.
"Contact and capture confirmed," cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev radioed from a control station inside Zvezda.
"Congratulations on the auto docking," called a Russian flight controller.
The Program M-11M spacecraft is loaded with 2,050 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water and 2,813 pounds of dry cargo, including food, crew supplies and equipment.