Cargo Craft Docks to Station, Completes Space Delivery
The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory's Poisk module at 7:43 a.m. EDT on June 1. The spacecraft launched at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) May 30, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft delivers about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station and will remain docked for almost six months before departing in late November for a re-entry into Earth's atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.
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