Progress Cargo Craft Docks to Station Resupplying Crew
The unpiloted Progress 91 spacecraft arrived at the aft port of the orbiting laboratory's Zvezda Service module at 6:02 p.m. EST, March 1. The spacecraft launched at 4:24 p.m. EST (2:24 a.m. Baikonur time) Feb. 27, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Roscosmos spacecraft is delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 72 crew aboard the International Space Station and will remain docked for approximately six months before departing for a re-entry into Earth's atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.
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