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Cargo Ship to carry future supplies for International Space Station MIL/NASA/Universe Today, Dec 26, 2004. Special Correspondence An unmanned Progress cargo shall carry all the supplies to International Space Station in future. Recently food ran short and the supply was needed urgently. The Progress cargo ship was lifted off from Kazakhstan over night with the supplies. A Russian cargo spacecraft is already on its way to the International Space Station. The Progress resupply ship launched at 4:19:31 p.m. CST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and less than 10 minutes later settled into orbit. Moments after that, automatic commands deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas. Food supplies were getting low on board the station, so the Progress is loaded up with a 112-day supply of food, as well as water, air, propellant, and additional spare parts for the station. It's expected to dock automatically on December 25th to the aft port of the Zvezda living quarters module. The Progress is carrying 5,000 pounds of food, fuel, oxygen, water, spare parts and holiday presents to the crew. It's loaded with 1,234 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 926 pounds of water, and more than 2,700 pounds of spare parts, life support system components and experiment hardware. The manifest also includes about a 112-day supply of food in 69 containers to replenish the Station pantry. Other items on the Progress include new laptop computers, replacement parts for the U.S. spacesuits and additional components for the arrival next year of the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, another type of automated cargo craft. Chiao and Sharipov are scheduled to open the hatch to the Progress shortly after 12 p.m. CST Sunday to begin unloading the cargo. Wish to have full story? .http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/progress_16_launch.html?24122004
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