Station Crew Gets Ready for Same Day Progress Launch and Docking
1 Aug 2012, 03:24 UTC
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The Pirs docking compartment has opened up after the ISS Progress 47 resupply ship undocked Monday afternoon. This leaves room for a new cargo ship, the ISS Progress 48, which will launch Wednesday at 3:35 p.m. EDT and dock to Pirs less than six hours later after just four orbits.
The six Expedition 32 crew members will shift their sleep schedules to accommodate the arrival of the Progress 48. Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Sergei Revin and Yuri Malenchenko will carefully mon [...]
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