On July 5, 2015, the Russian Progress 60 cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 3. It was packed with more than 3 tons of food, water, fuel, hardware and other supplies for the Expedition 44 crewmembers aboard the space station. This successful delivery ended a streak of cargo launch failures after a SpaceX rocket exploded and another Progress spacecraft fell back to Earth after launch. Thankfully this mission went more smoothly than the two right before it. Progress 60 remained docked at the space station until Dec. 19. After the astronauts stuffed it with trash, they sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 3. It was packed with more than 3 tons of food, water, fuel, hardware and other supplies for the Expedition 44 crewmembers aboard the space station. This successful delivery ended a streak of cargo launch failures after a SpaceX rocket exploded and another Progress spacecraft fell back to Earth after launch. Thankfully this mission went more smoothly than the two right before it. Progress 60 remained docked at the space station until Dec. 19. After the astronauts stuffed it with trash, they sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 2015, the Russian Progress 60 cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station.
00:09The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 3rd.
00:13It was packed with more than 3 tons of food, water, fuel, hardware and other supplies for the Expedition 44 crew members aboard the space station.
00:23This successful delivery ended a streak of cargo launch failures after a SpaceX rocket exploded on the launch pad and another Progress spacecraft fell back to Earth after launch.
00:32Thankfully, this mission went more smoothly than the two right before it.
00:35Progress 60 remained docked at the space station until December 19th.
00:39After the astronauts stuffed it with trash, they sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
00:44And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:52NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology