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Unmanned Russian Cargo Spaceship Launched
October 23, 2006
U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria (left), one of the three members of the crew of the International Space Station (Courtesy Photo)
The Progress M-58 cargo ship, which is mounted on a Soyuz-U booster rocket, is scheduled to reach the ISS on October 26.
Among the provisions are fresh fruit and vegetables, compact discs, and DVDs for the station's current three-man crew, Russia's Mikhail Tyurin, Germany's Thomas Reiter, and U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria.
(Kazakhstan Today, ITAR-TASS)