Progress launches, docks with ISS
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2014, 6:37 AM ET (1137 GMT)
A Progress cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday, six hours after its launch from Baikonur. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress M-22M spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:23 am EST (1623 GMT) Wednesday on an expedited four-orbit approach to the USS. The Progress docked in automated mode with the Pirs module of the station at 5:22 pm EST (2222 GMT). The spacecraft is carrying two and a half metric tons of food, water, fuel, and other supplies for the station.
A Progress cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday, six hours after its launch from Baikonur. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress M-22M spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:23 am EST (1623 GMT) Wednesday on an expedited four-orbit approach to the USS. The Progress docked in automated mode with the Pirs module of the station at 5:22 pm EST (2222 GMT). The spacecraft is carrying two and a half metric tons of food, water, fuel, and other supplies for the station.
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