HOWARDSTERN
08-24-01, 07:46 AM
AUGUST 23, 15:42 EDT
<b>Russian Cargo Ship Docks in Space </b>
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian cargo ship carrying fuel and other supplies docked Thursday with the international space station, officials said.
The Progress M-45 docked with the station at 1:51 p.m. Moscow time, said Irina Manshilina, a spokeswoman for the Russian Mission Control.
The ship brought about 2.75 tons of cargo, including fuel, water, oxygen, equipment and spare parts.
The station's current crew — NASA skipper Frank Culbertson and Russians Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin — were to start unloading the cargo ship Thursday evening.
Culbertson, Dezhurov and Tyurin will spend the next four months aboard the space station, taking delivery of a Russian docking compartment in September and a new Russian lifeboat in October in addition to regular cargo shipments.
Besides regular cargo, the Progress M-45 carried 8,000 greetings from Japanese families to the international space station. The greetings were chosen in a contest sponsored by the Houston, Texas-based company Encounter 2001, which says it is working to build an unmanned spacecraft, fill it with DNA samples and messages from up to 4.5 million people, then send it beyond the solar system.
<b>Russian Cargo Ship Docks in Space </b>
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian cargo ship carrying fuel and other supplies docked Thursday with the international space station, officials said.
The Progress M-45 docked with the station at 1:51 p.m. Moscow time, said Irina Manshilina, a spokeswoman for the Russian Mission Control.
The ship brought about 2.75 tons of cargo, including fuel, water, oxygen, equipment and spare parts.
The station's current crew — NASA skipper Frank Culbertson and Russians Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin — were to start unloading the cargo ship Thursday evening.
Culbertson, Dezhurov and Tyurin will spend the next four months aboard the space station, taking delivery of a Russian docking compartment in September and a new Russian lifeboat in October in addition to regular cargo shipments.
Besides regular cargo, the Progress M-45 carried 8,000 greetings from Japanese families to the international space station. The greetings were chosen in a contest sponsored by the Houston, Texas-based company Encounter 2001, which says it is working to build an unmanned spacecraft, fill it with DNA samples and messages from up to 4.5 million people, then send it beyond the solar system.