KOROLEV /Moscow Region/, November 23. /TASS/. The Progress MS-29 cargo spaceship that was blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport on Thursday, has docked to the Poisk module of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment, a TASS correspondent reported from the Mission Control Center.
The spacecraft docked to the station in an automatic regime. The process was controlled by specialists on the Mission Control Center on Earth and by Roscosmos cosmonauts Ivan Vagner, who is also a TASS special correspondent, Alexey Ovchinin, and Alexander Gorbunov.
The Progress MS-29 resupply ship has delivered 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).
Andrey Vedernikov, head of the space food department at the Research Institute of Food Concentrate Industry and Special Food Technology, told TASS earlier that the Progress MS-29 spacecraft would deliver dried venison and horsemeat, canned fish, meat and vegetables, horseradish, adjika, mustard, soups, cottage cheese, porridge, coffee, cocoa and tea drinks, as well as fresh fruit and sweets to Russian cosmonauts working aboard the orbital outpost. The spaceship would also deliver New Year presents for the cosmonauts, he added.