Crew Prepares for Progress Departure, Arrival
With snow flurries falling from a chilled, leaden grey sky, the
ISS Progress 45 cargo craft and its Soyuz booster rolled out to the
launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9 p.m. EDT
Thursday (7 a.m. Friday Baikonur time) for liftoff, today, Sunday
at 6:11 a.m. to the International Space Station. The unmanned cargo
vehicle is stocked with 2.9 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the
station crew, including 1,653 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of
oxygen, 926 pounds of water and 3,108 pounds of maintenance gear,
spare parts and experiment hardware.
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