SPACE — On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first Progress cargo capsule. Its mission is to deliver supplies to the Salyut 6 space station.
Since then, more than 150 Progress spacecraft have launched cargo to crews of the International Space Station (ISS) as well as earlier small space stations built by Russia and the Soviet Union. Progress 1 is carrying nearly 3,000 packages of food, water, scientific equipment and spare parts for the two-person Salyut 6 station crew.
The cosmonauts unloaded the Progress, then filled the spacecraft with trash. Progress then takes the waste to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere with it. Source: Space.com
2024-01-20 16:48:00
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