Saturday, October 31, 2009

Supplies in Space

A Russian "Progress" supply ship approaches the ISS.


Found here.

6 comments:

  1. Knock knock. Who's there? It's HAL, bringing garlic and apples.

    Pretty amazing that it's unmanned, and trusted to dock at the ISS.

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  2. Unmanned? The flight 188 pilots are looking for work I hear...

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  3. Sarah, the Soviets/Russians have flown well over a hundred Progress cargo craft to space stations for over 30 years, now. It is a proven design. The ESA is now doing the same thing with their ATV program.

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  4. Although they did have their share of problems with Progress and Mir.
    http://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/multimedia/progress-collision.htm

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  5. The Progress collided with a solar array on the Spektr module. Then, the spacecraft hit Spektr itself, punched a hole in a solar panel ...

    Yeah, Dennis. You might say that "objects in Mir are closer than they appear".

    This incident is why I was a little surprised to hear a few years ago that Progress was making visits to the ISS.

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  6. Sarah
    As I recall, a Soviet satellite country (Georgia?) had been building the Progress on board docking computer. After the fall of the Empire, the docking computers were getting to be a problem procuring; the 1st solution was to have a cosmonaut remotely pilot it in, with not so good results. No longer a problem.

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