The astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) just got a fresh shipment of supplies.
Russia’s robotic Progress 93 spacecraft docked with the orbiting lab’s Zvezda module at 1:23 p.m. EDT (1723 GMT) today (Sept. 13), two days after launching atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The meetup occurred today as the two spacecraft were flying 260 miles (418 kilometers) over northeastern Kazakhstan.
Progress is loaded with 2.8 tons of food, fuel and other cargo for the astronauts of the ISS’ current Expedition 73 mission, according to NASA officials.
Progress 93 joins four other spacecraft at the ISS.
A new supply shipment was recently delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) crew.
At 1:23 p.m., Russia’s robotic Progress 93 spacecraft docked with the Zvezda module of the orbiting lab. m. Today (September), EDT (1723 GMT. 13), two days after taking off from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz rocket.
The two spacecraft were flying 260 miles (418 kilometers) over northeastern Kazakhstan when they met up today.
According to NASA officials, Progress is loaded with 2 to 8 tons of food, fuel, and other supplies for the ISS’s current Expedition 73 crew.
The freighter will spend roughly six months at the ISS before undocking, returning to Earth, and dying a fiery death in the atmosphere of our planet.
Joining four other spacecraft at the ISS is Progress 93. They are two crew-carrying spacecraft (a Russian Soyuz and Endeavour, the Dragon that is flying SpaceX’s Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA) and two freighters (an additional Progress and a robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule).
And yet another vehicle is on its way up: the Cygnus cargo spacecraft from Northrop Grumman, which is set to launch on Sunday (Sept. 14) and reach the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 17. .
Currently residing on the ISS are Jonny Kim, Mike Fincke, and Zena Cardman from NASA; Kimiya Yui from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA); and Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and Oleg Platonov from Roscosmos, a Russian space agency.
In charge of Expedition 73 is Ryzhikov. All six members of his crew are flight engineers.
