Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC

The tenth Russian Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space Station is scheduled to dock at approximately 9:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Rob Navias

Johnson Space Center, Houston January 29, 2003

(Phone: 281/483-5111)

Allard Beutel

Headquarters, Washington

(Phone: 202/358-0951)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-009

NEW CARGO SHIP DOCKS WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

The tenth Russian Progress resupply vehicle to the

International Space Station is scheduled to dock at

approximately 9:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Feb. 4.

Commentary and coverage, originating from the Space Station

Flight Control Room at the Johnson Space Center, Houston,

will be carried live on NASA Television beginning at 9 a.m.

EST. NASA TV is on GE-2, Transponder 9C, vertical

polarization at 85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with

audio at 6.8 MHz.

The Progress Nine ship that arrived at the Station in

September is scheduled to undock from the aft port of the

Zvezda Service Module on Feb. 1. The new Progress launches

from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Feb. 2 for its

two-day trip to the Station. Neither the Progress Nine

undocking nor the Progress 10 launch will be televised.

Progress 10 will carry supplies for the Expedition Seven

crew, which arrives at the Space Station in March. It will

also carry repaired components for the Destiny laboratory

Microgravity Science Glovebox that experienced a power

failure last November.

Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer

Nikolai Budarin and NASA Station Science Officer Don Pettit

are in the third month of their four-month mission on board

the Space Station. The crew will unload the Progress shortly

after docking. Pettit will immediately begin work on the

Microgravity Science Glovebox, so it can be reactivated to

support all planned science investigations before the end of

the Expedition 6 mission.