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Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS: report

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-05-17 21:09

MOSCOW - A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported.

This NASA handout image received in March 2008 shows the International Space Station. A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported. [Agencies]

The cargo ship, launched early Thursday, docked with the ISS automatically, the report added.

The station's three-man crew, Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and American Garrett Reisman, were expected to open the hatch to the cargo ship within a couple of hours.

Progress is delivering a three-tonne cargo of combustible energy materials, food, medicine, oxygen and water. These last were needed after a problem with static discharge was identified as coming from solar panels used to run the computers which control oxygen and water supplies on the ISS.

The vessel is also taking a batch of snails for experiments looking at tissue regeneration in space.