Progress MS-29 spacecraft with 2.5 thousand kilograms of cargo docked to the ISS
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- Progress MS-29 spacecraft with 2.5 thousand kilograms of cargo docked to the ISS
The Progress MS-29 cargo ship has docked with the ISS. This is reported on November 23 on the official website of Roscosmos.
"Today at 17:31 Moscow time cargo ship "Progress MS-29" in automatic mode docked to the small research module "Poisk" of the Russian segment of the International Space Station", - stated in the message of "Roscosmos".
On its board - about 2.5 thousand cargoes, including fuel, water and compressed nitrogen to replenish the atmosphere of the International Space Station.
In addition, the ship delivered to the station equipment for scientific experiments "BTN-Neutron-2", "Vampire" and others.
It is noted that the station is currently working crew of the 72nd long expedition consisting of Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Wagner and Alexander Gorbunov, as well as American astronauts Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
The spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle on November 21. It was reported that after the rocket put the spacecraft into low-Earth orbit, its flight to the ISS was supposed to take a day.
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