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Station Crew Awaits Cargo Ship

Image above: Expedition 19 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata looks through a window in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

The new ISS Progress 33 cargo craft is en route to the International Space Station following its launch Thursday at 2:37 p.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Two rendezvous burns on Friday fine-tuned its scheduled arrival to the station’s Pirs docking compartment on Tuesday at 3:23 p.m. The unpiloted resupply ship is carrying more than 2 ½ tons of food, fuel and supplies.

It replaces the ISS Progress 32, which undocked from the station Wednesday. Filled with trash and other discarded items, Progress 32 will be deorbited over the Pacific Ocean on May 18. Prior to deorbit, ground controllers will perform a series of engine firings and study their effect on plasma in the Earth’s atmosphere.

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2009 International Space Station Calendar

As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station, the agency is offering a special 2009 calendar to teachers, as well as the general public.

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