A new supply of food, fuel and supplies has arrived at the international space station via a Russian supply ship.
The progress of Roscomsos MS-30 (or progress 91, as referred by NASA) Cargo spacecrafts autonomously moored to the AFT Haven of the Zvezda service module of the space station on Saturday (March 1) as the two vehicles around the South Atlantic Ocean. The 18:02 pm est (2302 GMT) Link Up came two days after the progress was launched from the Baikonur Cosmdrome in Kazakhstan.
The framed spacecraft is full of approximately three tons (5,730 pounds or 2,599 kilograms) deliveries for the expedition 72 crew of the station. In addition to clothing, food, medical and sanitary supplies, the progress also has a New Orlan-MKS space suit that can be used in Russian space walks.
The progress also has equipment and hardware to support Roscosmos scientific experiments. There are materials to cultivate micro-algae as a potential food source; the tools needed to test how micro -organisms influence different surfaces in the track laboratory; And the equipment to make advanced semiconductor crystals.
The Kosmonauts of the station, including Aleksey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Alexander Grebenkin, will also find biomedical aids to assess the effects of micro -gravity on blood circulation and immunity.
The progress will also supply the station of £ 2,094 (950 kilograms) of fuel, 926 pounds (420 kilograms of drinking water and 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of nitrogen to supplement the atmosphere on board.
The Russian spacecraft stays at the station for about six months, because it is topped up by the ISS crew and waste. The progress will then undo and will be directed in a destructive return to the atmosphere of the earth, throwing away it and refusing on board.
Progress MS-30 is the 91st Russian supply vessel that has been launched since 1998 to support the International Space Station Program and 183rd Progress Flight since the first in 1978.
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