“Progress-M27M” will go to the ISS with the Banner of Victory on board – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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The launch of “Soyuz-2.1a” with a space truck “Progress-M27M” that takes on the International Space Station ( ISS), a copy of the Victory Banner, scheduled for April 28 at 10.10 MSK from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, told RIA Novosti the Mission Control Center.

“This is the second test launch of a cargo ship on the launch vehicle” Soyuz-2.1a ” . Department of “Progress M-27M” from the third stage of the launch vehicle “Soyuz” is scheduled to 10.18 MSK. Docking with the ISS space truck to be held in 16.07 MSK in automatic mode “, – told the agency.

Space truck to deliver to the ISS more than 2.5 tonnes of payloads for different purposes: fuel, oxygen, food, equipment for scientific experiments, for sending cosmonauts and astronauts.