Russian space “truck” will flood in the Pacific Ocean – Interfax

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Moscow. On 25 April. INTERFAX.RU – decayed cargo spacecraft “Progress M-25M”, which today is undocked from the ISS, scheduled for Sunday, “Interfax” in the Russian Mission Control Center (MCC).

“Tomorrow at 15:08 Moscow time will be included in the engine braking, “Progress M-25M” will enter the atmosphere and will cease to exist “- a spokesman said.

He said that this should happen on the part of unnavigable the Pacific Ocean, the so-called graveyard of spaceships, which is about 3 thousand. km east of the capital of New Zealand, Wellington.

“Progress M-25M” was launched on 29 October 2014 and delivered to the station in 2351 pounds various goods, including fuel, air, food, equipment to maintain the station in operation, equipment for scientific experiments and parcels for the ISS crew members.

Next “truck” – “Progress M-27M “- will be launched from Baikonur on 28 April at 10:09:50 Moscow. Its docking with the ISS on the same day at 16:07 Moscow time. Control the process of docking flight engineers will be the 43rd expedition to the ISS, astronauts Gennady Padalka and Anton Shkaplerov.

Now the ISS keeps watch international crew of Russian Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Anton Shkaplerova, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Terry miles, and European Space Agency astronaut Italians Samantha Cristoforetti.