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Russia to Deliver Supplies to Space Station in Record Time

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For the first time Russia will attempt to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) in six hours rather than two days, Mission Control said on Wednesday.

For the first time Russia will attempt to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) in six hours rather than two days, Mission Control said on Wednesday.

The launch of a Soyuz-U rocket carrying the Progress M-16M space freighter is scheduled for 11:35 p.m. Moscow time (19:35 GMT) on Wednesday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.

“We are planning for the first time in the history of the ISS to carry out the docking of a space freighter with the orbital station within the first six hours of the flight,” a Mission Control spokesman said.

“The docking is scheduled for 05:24 a.m. Moscow time [01:24 GMT] on the fourth revolution [of the space freighter] around Earth,” the official said, adding that normally it takes two to three days for a Progress spacecraft to get to the ISS.

Progress M-16M will deliver over 2.5 metric tons of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-men crew onboard the orbital station.

Russia’s Progress M-15M space freighter undocked from the ISS early on Tuesday on a three-week scientific mission before it gets drowned in the Pacific.

 

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