A Russian Progress 10 resupply craft successfully docked to the International Space Station today, two days after it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The successful arrival of the Progress assures that the three station residents will have plenty of supplies to continue their mission until late June or early July, if required.....

International Space Station Status Report #03-5

9:30 a.m. CST, Tuesday, February 4, 2003

Expedition Six Crew

A Russian Progress 10 resupply craft successfully docked to the

International Space Station today, two days after it was launched from

the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The cargo ship linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at

8:49 a.m. CST (1449 GMT) following a flawless automated approach to the

complex. The Progress is carrying a ton of food, fuel and supplies for

the Expedition 6 crew on board the ISS. At the time of docking, the ISS

was flying 240 statute miles over central Asia.

Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and

NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit monitored the docking of the Progress

from inside the station in their 73rd day in space, their 71st day on

board the orbital outpost.

The station crewmembers planned to open the hatch between Zvezda and the

Progress around 1:00 p.m. CST (1900 GMT) following leak checks between

the two craft, but its supplies will not be unloaded until Wednesday

morning. The successful arrival of the Progress assures that the three

station residents will have plenty of supplies to continue their mission

until late June or early July, if required.

Among the supplies in the new Progress are replacement parts for the

Microgravity Science Glovebox in the Destiny laboratory, which

experienced a power failure back in November and has been dormant during

Expedition 6. Pettit plans to install the new parts and test the Glovebox

Wednesday. If it works, the Glovebox will be used to support all of the

experiments planned for this Expedition before the crew returns to Earth

in March.

Bowersox, Budarin and Pettit will pay a private tribute on orbit today to

Columbia's astronauts. Station flight controllers will radio to the crew

an audio feed from the memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in

Houston, TX, which is being attended by President Bush and Mrs. Bush, and

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station as well as

station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available

on the Internet at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/

Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet site

administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space

Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at:

http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov/

The next station status report will be issued as developments warrant.