Progress Supply Ship Set To Leave Station For Ocean Disposal

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The Progress M-50 will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean, 1,800 miles to the east of Wellington, New Zealand, the Interfax news agency said.

Moscow (UPI) Dec 21, 2004
A Russian cargo spacecraft will be disengaged from the International Space Station Wednesday, de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later.

The spokesman of the Russian Mission Control Center Valeriy Lyndin told the Russian RIA-Novosti news agency the spacecraft Progress M-50 will be disengaged at 14:34 p.m. ET and sunk at 18:24 p.m. ET the same day.

The Progress M-50 will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean, 1,800 miles to the east of Wellington, New Zealand, the Interfax news agency said.

The Progress M-51 is scheduled to take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:19 ET Thursday and dock on the ISS at 19:05 ET Saturday, RIA-Novosti said.

The ISS crew, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, are experiencing a lack of food on board. Their food ration has been cut in half. If for some reason the Progress M-51 with food containers does not reach the station Saturday, the crew members will be evacuated Dec. 30, Russian media reported earlier this month.

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Expedition 10 Crew Cut To Half Rations On Space Station

Moscow (UPI) Dec 20, 2004
International Space Station mission controllers have cut the astronauts' food ration in half, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov told a local newspaper.

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