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Progress Supply Ship Set To Leave Station For Ocean Disposal
A Russian cargo spacecraft will be disengaged from the International Space Station Wednesday, de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later. The spokesman of the Russian Mission Control Center Valeriy Lyndin told the Russian RIA-Novosti news agency the spacecraft Progress M-50 will be disengaged at 14:34 p.m. ET and sunk at 18:24 p.m. ET the same day. The Progress M-50 will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean, 1,800 miles to the east of Wellington, New Zealand, the Interfax news agency said. The Progress M-51 is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:19 ET Thursday and dock on the ISS at 19:05 ET Saturday, RIA-Novosti said. The ISS crew, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, are experiencing a lack of food on board. Their food ration has been cut in half. If for some reason the Progress M-51 with food containers does not reach the station Saturday, the crew members will be evacuated Dec. 30, Russian media reported earlier this month. All rights reserved. © 2004 United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of United Press International. Related Links SpaceWar Search SpaceWar Subscribe To SpaceWar Express 
Expedition 10 Faces Half Rations As Resupply Mission Countdown
Moscow (UPI) Dec 20, 2004International Space Station mission controllers have cut the astronauts' food ration in half, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov told a local newspaper. |
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