This night the Progress M-51 docked perfectly to the International Space Station over Central Asia.
Launched on December 23 at 22:19:34 UTC, arrived to the aft port of the Service Module Zvezda on December 25 at 23:58 UTC. Thanks to NASA TV was possible to see all the operations.
Progress contains 5,000 pounds of fuel, food, water and other materials.
Chris van den Berg said two days ago: The foodsupplies for the 2 crewmembers are almost exhausted and if the docking will fail the crew has to return to earth on 30.12.04.