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Progress M-61 to Deliver Equipment to Fix ISS Computers
Soyuz-U booster with Progress M-61 cargo spaceship blasted off from a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome Thursday night. Progress M-61 carries equipment to restore normal work of ISS computers, RIA Novosti reported with reference to news service of Russia’s Mission Control Center.
The launched cargo spaceship bears the name of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, whose 150th anniversary is celebrated this year. Tsiolkovsky was the pioneer of astronautic theory, he theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion and is generally considered the father of human space flight.
Progress M-61 is to dock ISS Sunday, representatives of Space Control Mission specified. It will deliver additional equipment to fix ISS computers which failure was registered at night from June 11 to June 12. Then, the crew managed to revive computers only temporarily.
Progress M-61 also carries devices for Japanese program of space experiments as well as the fuel, water and food for the crew, which currently includes Russia’s cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson.
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