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SOURCE: NASA
Cover Photo – Russia’s ISS Progress 75 cargo craft, seen departing from the International Space Station April 27, 2021 after undocking from the Zvezda service module’s aft port, where it stayed for just over a year. The trash-filled spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere above the South Pacific for a fiery but safe demise a day later.Credits: NASA
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NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station. Coverage will begin at 11 p.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 14.
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Launch of the unpiloted Russian Progress 80 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 11:25 p.m. (9:25 a.m. on Feb. 15 Baikonur time).
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NASA TV coverage of the spacecraft’s rendezvous and docking at the space station will begin at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17. The cargo spacecraft is set to link up to the Pirs docking compartment on the Russian segment at 2:06 a.m. The Russian space agency Roscosmos will determine a departure date for Progress 80.
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