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2003
Report #28 
7 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, June 11, 2003 
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas 
 
An unmanned Russian resupply craft successfully docked to the
International Space Station this morning, delivering more than two
tons of food, fuel, water, supplies and scientific gear to the
Expedition 7 crew aboard the complex. 

The Progress 11 vehicle automatically linked up to the Pirs Docking
Compartment attached to the Zvezda Service Module over Central Asia
at 6:15 a.m. Central time (1115 GMT) three days after its launch from
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As the Progress neared Pirs
for docking, Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS
Science Officer Ed Lu were in Zvezda, monitoring its approach. At the
time of contact and capture, the ISS was flying over Central Asia at
an altitude of 240 statute miles. After conducting leak checks to
insure a tight seal between the Progress and the ISS, Malenchenko and
Lu will open the hatch to the ship and begin to unload its cargo. 

Stowed in the Progress are replacement parts for environmental
systems in both the U.S. and Russian segments of the Station, office
supplies, two tanks of potable water, and some clothing items for the
two crewmembers. Also aboard the Progress are two experiment kits for
European Space Agency cosmonaut Pedro Duque, who will launch in
October on the Soyuz TMA-3 vehicle with the Expedition 8 crew for
about a week's worth of scientific research on the ISS under a
contract between ESA and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. Duque
will return to Earth with Malenchenko and Lu in the Soyuz TMA-2
vehicle currently docked to the Station. 

The arrival of the new Progress puts three Russian vehicles at the
ISS. Docked to the aft port of Zvezda is the Progress 10 resupply
craft that arrived at the Station on February 4, and docked to the
Zarya Module is the Soyuz TMA-2 vehicle that brought Malenchenko and
Lu to the ISS on April 28.

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future
launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere
on the Earth, is available on the Internet at: 

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/

Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet
site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: 

http://scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/

The next ISS status report will be issued on Friday, June 13, or
earlier, if events warrant. 

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