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[b]Progress M-17M makes single-day sprint to the International Space Station[/b] Loaded with almost three tons of supplies, Russia's Progress M-17M unmanned cargo spacecraft launched Wednesday (Oct. 31) at 2:41 a.m. CDT (0741 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and six hours later, completed an accelerated rendezvous with the International Space Station, docking to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module. The link-up took place at 8:33 a.m. CDT (1333 GMT) as the two spacecraft orbited 250 miles above Bogota, Columbia. The fast arrival of the Progress duplicated a single-day launch to docking scenario first executed by the the Progress M-16M (48P) cargo craft in July, and further refined accelerated rendezvous techniques that may be applied to manned Soyuz launches to the station beginning in 2013. Progress M-17M brought to the station 2.9 tons of supplies, including 2,050 pounds (930 kilograms) of propellant for the station's Russian maneuvering thrusters, 62 pounds (28 kg) of oxygen, 42 pounds (19 kg) of air, 926 (420 kg) pounds of water and 2,738 pounds (1,242 pounds) of spare parts, maintenance items and experiment hardware.
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