RUSSIA: PROGRESS M-32 SUPPLY VESSEL DOCKS WITH ORBITING MIR SPACE STATION BRINGING MUCH NEEDED SUPPLIES
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RUSSIA: PROGRESS M-32 SUPPLY VESSEL DOCKS WITH ORBITING MIR SPACE STATION BRINGING MUCH NEEDED SUPPLIES
- Title: RUSSIA: PROGRESS M-32 SUPPLY VESSEL DOCKS WITH ORBITING MIR SPACE STATION BRINGING MUCH NEEDED SUPPLIES
- Date: 2nd August 1996
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AUGUST 2, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV MISSION CONTROL CENTRE, PAN SCREEN SHOWING MIR POSITION 0.10 2. CU MODEL AND PICTURE OF MIR SPACE STATION 0.16 3. LV ZOOM MISSION CONTROLLERS WORKING 0.25 4. LV SCREEN SHOWING DOCKING IN PROGRESS 0.33 5. CU SCREEN SHOWING DOCKING 0.40 6. SLV OFFICIALS VIEWING DOCKING IN MISSION CONTROL 0.42 7. CU SCREEN SHOWING DOCKING 0.55 8. LV MISSION CONTROLLERS WATCHING DOCKING (2 SHOTS) 1.02 9. CU DOCKING ON SCREEN, PEOPLE WATCHING 1.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 17th August 1996 13:00
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVADT6B78K5C6ZHXC9N1N7SDMBFU
- Story Text: - INTRO: A supply vessel has docked with Russia's orbiting Mir space station bringing some 2.4 tonnes of food, fuel and scientific equipment. Techinical problems delayed the launch of the vessel but authorities have said the Mir crew was not going hungry.
----------------------------------------------------------------- The Progress M-32 craft successfully docked with Russia's Mir space station at 2204 GMT (2.04 a.m. EST Saturday) on Friday (August 2) which has been in orbit since February 1986.
It is carrying food and fuel supplies and scientific equipment which will facilitate the manned launch scheduled for later this month.
The agency said the rocket was also carrying a St Andrew's flag, to be flown in space to mark the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy. The anniversary was actually last weekend.
Faults in the Soyuz-5 booster rocket's engines had earlier caused the Progress launch to be twice postponed which in turn had caused the manned launch to be delayed.
Russian space officials now say that Russians Gennady Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov and Frenchwoman Claudie Andre- Deshays will blast off for Mir on August 19.
Andre-Deshays is due to work on board the Mir station for 16 days carrying out biological and medical experiments, according to a joint Russian-French programme.
The two Russian cosmonauts, relieving the present Russian-United States (U.S) crew, are due to work in space for 225 days. They will work on 157 Russian and more than 40 U.S.
experiments.
Manakov and Vinogradov plan to receive a U.S. and a German astronaut during their mission.
The Mir station was launched from the Soviet Union's Baikonur space station in February 1986, and has been manned since, long beyond its planned working life. It will stay in orbit at least until 1999.
The team has already been forced to extend its stay in space because of cash shortages in Russia and technical problems with both the Russian and U.S. space programmes.
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