The astronauts on board the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) simply acquired a recent cargo of provides.
Russia’s robotic Progress 93 spacecraft docked with the orbiting lab’s Zvezda module at 1:23 p.m. EDT (1723 GMT) right now (Sept. 13), two days after launching atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The meetup occurred right now as the 2 spacecraft have been flying 260 miles (418 kilometers) over northeastern Kazakhstan.
Progress is loaded with 2.8 tons of meals, gas and different cargo for the astronauts of the ISS’ present Expedition 73 mission, in keeping with NASA officers.
The freighter will stay on the ISS for about six months, after which it is going to undock, head again down towards Earth and die a fiery demise in our planet’s environment.
Progress 93 joins 4 different spacecraft on the ISS. Two of them are fellow freighters (one other Progress and a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule) and two are crew-carrying spacecraft (a Russian Soyuz and Endeavour, the Dragon that is flying SpaceX’s Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA).
And yet one more automobile will head up quickly — Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch on Sunday (Sept. 14) and arrive on the ISS on Wednesday (Sept. 17).
There are seven folks dwelling aboard the ISS in the mean time: Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke and Jonny Kim of NASA; Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA); and Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov of the Russian house company Roscosmos.
Ryzhikov instructions Expedition 73. His six crewmates are all flight engineers.
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