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Progress to dock on Wednesday

Image Above: An unpiloted Progress 26 resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 5, 2007. Image credit: NASA

A new Progress cargo carrier is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment at 3:25 a.m. EST Wednesday after a launch just after 2:10 a.m. Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The station's 27th unpiloted Progress spacecraft brings to the orbiting laboratory almost 2.5 tons of propellant, oxygen and dry cargo.

While the Expedition 16 crew members wait for the Progress, they have received more than 6,000 greetings from Earth through a link on the nasa.gov home page.

Send Christmas greetings to the radio hams on the International Space Station