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Progress M-60 Docked with ISS
Launched from Baikonur launching pad, Progress M-60 space truck has automatically docked with International Space Station (ISS) in scheduled time today, May 15, RIA Novosti reported.
The crew didn’t need to step in and interfere in the Course system of distant approaching and docking. Once the cargo spaceship is linked up to ISS, Russia’s Fedor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov will open the hatches and start unloading delivered equipment and parcels from friends and relatives.
The third crewmember is U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams. She will return to Earth in summer in a shuttle.
Progress M-60 has delivered to astronauts water, fuel, new research equipment, food, fresh fruit and vegetables.
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