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[b]Progress M-19M docks at space station[/b] The Progress M-19M cargo craft completed a two-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS) Friday (April 26) as it docked to the Zvezda service module at 7:25 a.m. CDT (1225 GMT). The unmanned freighter completed a hard mate when docking hooks were deployed at 7:34 a.m. CDT (1234 GMT). Roscosmos cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko monitored the docking while at the controls of TORU, the Russian telerobotic rendezvous system, ready to take manual control of the automated docking process if difficulties arose. After conducting leak checks at the docking interface, the Expedition 35 crew members opened the hatches to the cargo craft at 10:39 a.m. CDT (1539 GMT) and began the long process of inventorying and unloading its 3.1 tons of food, fuel and equipment.
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