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Russian cargo spacecraft docks with ISS

Other News Materials 13 February 2009 12:45 (UTC +04:00)

A Russian cargo spaceship successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said.

The Progress M-66 docked with the orbital station at 10:18 Moscow time (0718 GMT), said Valery Lyndin, spokesman for the flight control center, Xinhua reported.

The spacecraft, which took off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, brought the ISS crew 2.5 tons of supplies, including oxygen, food, medical equipment, and a new space suit with an inbuilt computer Orlan-MK.

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