MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. The Progress MS-29 resupply ship with holiday gifts and material and equipment launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday, will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday.

The resupply ship is set to dock to the Poisk module of the ISS Russian segment at 5:36 p.m. Moscow time (2:36 p.m. GMT) on November 23.

The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Progress MS-29 resupply ship blasted off at 3:22 p.m. Moscow time (12:22 p.m. GMT) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on November 21. This has been the fourth launch of the Progress MS resupply ship and the seventh liftoff of the Soyuz rocket this year.

The Progress MS-29 resupply ship will deliver 2,487 kg of cargo to the orbital outpost, including 869 kg of refueling propellant, 420 liters of potable water and 43 kg of pressurized nitrogen, and also 1,155 kg of material and equipment in the dry cargo hold, in particular, for experiments dubbed Vampire (growing crystals in an electric vacuum furnace), BTN-Neutron-2 (studying the neutron spectrum) and 3D Print (3D printing of polymer materials).

The Progress MS is a Russian automated cargo spacecraft developed specially for servicing orbital stations. It is used to deliver various cargo to the orbital outpost (propellant, scientific equipment, oxygen, potable water, food and other items), and also to adjust its orbit.