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Russian Progress MS-28 spacecraft docked to the ISS

Moscow, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) The Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft, launched Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, docked today to the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) reported.

Roscosmos told the press that the Progress MS-28 docked at the station in automatic mode, and from the ground the specialists of the Mission Control Center supervised the process with the cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Aleksandr Grebionkin from the ISS, .

The spacecraft carried 2,621 kilograms of cargo to the ISS, including 950 kilograms of fuel for refueling, 420 liters of drinking water, 50 kilograms of compressed nitrogen in cylinders, and some 1,200 kilograms of various equipment and materials.

Among the latter, the freighter carried food for the crew, clothing, and material for scientific experiments.

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