"Progress M-18M" ceased to exist in the Pacific Ocean - Reuters

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“Progress M-18M” sent to the “graveyard of spaceships”

MOSCOW, July 26 – RIA Novosti. of the fragment undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) cargo ship “Progress M-18M” splashed on the “graveyard of spaceships” – in the non-navigational area of ??the Pacific Ocean, according to RIA Novosti representative of the Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC).

“Fragments of the space truck to 4.42 MSK fell into the Pacific Ocean about four thousand kilometers from the capital city of New Zealand, Wellington,” – said the source.

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spacecraft “Progress M-18M” went to the ISS. Scenes from the Baikonur

on to replace “Progress M-18M” will be sent to the ship “Progress M-20M”, the launch of which is scheduled for July 28 at 00.45 MSK from Baikonur. Mooring will be made to the docking station “Pierce” in the same day at 6.26 MSK. “Progress M-20M” will revert to the flight to the ISS on the “short” a six-hour scheme. It was tested on cargo ships, then to test it during the flight of manned spacecraft “Soyuz”. To date, two manned “Soyuz” successfully flew to the ISS on a “short” circuit.

watch on the ISS are Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin, Fyodor Yurchikhin, U.S. astronauts Christopher Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano.

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