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Russian supply ship docks with international space station
(AP), Khaleej Times
31 August 2003
MOSCOW - An unmanned Russian supply ship docked with the international space station on Sunday, bringing food, entertainment and, for the first time, satellite telephones to the men on board, Russian news agencies reported.
The Progress ship, which had taken off on Friday from the Russian launching facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, docked with the space station at 7:41 a.m. Moscow time (0341 GMT), the reports said. Officials at Mission Control outside Moscow could not immediately be reached for confirmation.
The ITAR-Tass news agency said satellite telephones were among the goods brought to American Edward Lu and Russian Yuri Malenchenko, who have ben aboard the station since April 28.
The decision to supply the crew with satellite communications equipment was made after Nikolai Budarin and Americans Kenneth Bowersox and Donald Pettit landed some 500 kilometers (300 miles) miles off course when retuning from the station in May and were not located for two hours, ITAR-Tass said.
The supply ship also carried fresh produce, water, magazines, films and CDs, the report said.
The station has had to rely on Russian crew capsules and cargo ships to ferry supplies since the Columbia disaster forced the grounding of the US shuttle fleet. All seven astronauts aboard the Columbia died in the Feb. 1 accident.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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