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2003
Report #5 
9:30 a.m. CST, Tuesday, February 4, 2003 
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas 

A Russian Progress 10 resupply craft successfully docked to the 
International Space Station today, two days after it was launched from 
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

The cargo ship linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module
at 8:49 a.m. CST (1449 GMT) following a flawless automated approach to 
the complex. The Progress is carrying a ton of food, fuel and supplies 
for the Expedition 6 crew on board the ISS. At the time of docking, 
the ISS was flying 240 statute miles over central Asia. 

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin
and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit monitored the docking of the
Progress from inside the station in their 73rd day in space, their
71st day on board the orbital outpost. 

The station crewmembers planned to open the hatch between Zvezda and
the Progress around 1:00 p.m. CST (1900 GMT) following leak checks
between the two craft, but its supplies will not be unloaded until
Wednesday morning. The successful arrival of the Progress assures that 
the three station residents will have plenty of supplies to continue 
their mission until late June or early July, if required. 

Among the supplies in the new Progress are replacement parts for the
Microgravity Science Glovebox in the Destiny laboratory, which
experienced a power failure back in November and has been dormant
during Expedition 6. Pettit plans to install the new parts and test
the Glovebox Wednesday. If it works, the Glovebox will be used to
support all of the experiments planned for this Expedition before the
crew returns to Earth in March. 

Bowersox, Budarin and Pettit will pay a private tribute on orbit today 
to Columbia’s astronauts. Station flight controllers will radio to the 
crew an audio feed from the memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space 
Center in Houston, TX, which is being attended by President Bush and 
Mrs. Bush, and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe. 

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station 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://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/

The next station status report will be issued as developments warrant.

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