Russian cargo spacecraft arrives at International Space Station

Moscow, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) The Russian agency Roscosmos reported that the Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS).

October 28, 2022
07:55

The Progress MS-21 was launched on Wednesday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and docked with the Poisk research module of the Russian segment of the ISS, as shown in a live broadcasted on Friday by the Roscosmos agency.

The docking process was supervised from the ground by Mission Control Center specialists, while cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kíkina controlled it on board of the ISS.

The ship brought to the station, among others, over 2.5 tons of cargo, including fuel, drinking water, as well as various supplies, such as materials for a 3D printer, and equipment to study the digestive and immune systems and bone tissue in space.

The mission of the Progress MS-21, according to data from Roscosmos, will last for eight months.

In addition to Russian cosmonauts Prokopiev, Petelin and Kíkina, American astronauts Francisco Rubio, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada and Japanese Koichi Wakata remain in the orbital station.

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