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HTTP:: Progress Docks to the ISS
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The weeks of commotion aboard the International Space Station (ISS) just keep on coming. After a crew change, the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-16 capsule, the departure of the TMA-14 capsule, the arrival of a new, unmanned Japanese spacecraft, the list of activities was made even bigger, when the Progress 35P space capsule docked to the station on Saturday night. The unmanned cargo freighter is the 35th such mission flown to the orbital outpost in more than ten years, Space reports. Even though they are not exactly spectacular, these flights, which see the Progress capsules docking themselves to the ISS, are what keeps the station going, providing priceless supplies, such as water, food, scientific equipment, and spare parts. They provide continuous coverage of the ISS' needs, and it's only now that they will begin to “lighten up” on their efforts, The European Space Agency (ESA) has developed its own means of transporting supplies to the ISS, the Automated Transfer Vehic!
le (ATV), and the Japanese space agency, JAXA, is following suit with the HTV. The Progress 35 spacecraft docked to the station at 9:40 pm EDT (2340 GMT), as the two spacecraft were flying about 225 miles above the coastlines of Uruguay. “Congratulations on the successful docking,” the crew of the station was told by the Mission Contr...
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