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| Image above: A Progress 22 cargo craft prepares to
automatically dock with the International Space Station on June 26,
2006. Photo credit: NASA. |
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Progress 23 on track for Thursday docking
After a successful launch Monday morning from Kazakhstan, the Progress
23 cargo craft is on track for a Thursday docking with the International
Space Station at 10:28 a.m. EDT.
The unpiloted cargo carrier is carrying supplies, equipment, propellant
and oxygen.
Though the Progress 23 is programmed for an automatic docking, Flight
Engineer Mikhail Tyurin is prepared to manually dock the cargo carrier
in the unlikely event it should be necessary.
Meanwhile, Expedition 14 continues maintenance activities, science experiments
and its daily exercise routine.
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and
two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew, known as
Expedition 15. Astronauts Clayton Anderson and Daniel Tani will travel
to the station next year and work as flight engineers. Cosmonauts Fyodor
Yurchikhin and Dr. Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting
laboratory.
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