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Forum:Soviet - Russian Space
Topic:Progress M-29M (61P) ISS resupply craft
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Loaded with more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 45 crew, the Progress is scheduled to autonomously dock to the rear port of the Zvezda service module about six hours after launch at 5:54 p.m. CDT (2254 GMT).

The Progress is packed with 3,397 pounds of dry cargo, including Russian food rations, sanitary napkins and waste containers, medical equipment, water purification hardware and electronics. The craft is also delivering 2,041 pounds of water and 242 pounds of oxygen to replenish the atmosphere inside the orbiting outpost.

The Progress will spend two months at the space station before departing on (or about) Dec. 9 for its deorbit into Earth's atmosphere.

Robert Pearlman
Progress M-29M docks to space station

Traveling about 252 miles (405 kilometers) above the north Atlantic Ocean, the Progress M-29M Russian cargo ship docked at 5:52 p.m. CDT (2252 GMT) to the rear port of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station, completing a 6 hour, 3 minute flight from the launch pad to the orbiting outpost.

The unmanned craft is delivering three tons of food, fuel, supplies and experiment hardware to the six crew members aboard the station.

Progress M-29M is scheduled to remain docked to the complex until early December.

Robert Pearlman
Progress M-29M departs space station

Russia's Progress M-29M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday (March 30), departing from the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 9:15 a.m. CDT (1415 GMT).

Loaded with trash, the vehicle was moved away from the station for a series of engineering tests by Russian flight controllers.

The spacecraft will be de-orbited on April 8 to burn up over the Pacific Ocean.

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