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Russia s Progress las vegas cheap hotels M-20M spacecraft, known in NASA s numbering scheme as Progress 52 (52P), launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:45 PM GMT on Saturday. The spacecraft then dock to the ISS just six hours later, delivering some vital spacesuit repair tools to the station crew.
Following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz-U booster, Progress M-20M initiated a by now well-practiced four-orbit fast rendezvous with the ISS, conducted over a period of around six hours. Immediately following launch however, all eyes were on the 4AO-BKA Kurs automated rendezvous antenna.
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Among the cargo will be some tools to aid in Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) troubleshooting efforts las vegas cheap hotels following the leak of water into ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano s EMU helmet during the cut-short US EVA-23 on July 16 .
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Progress M-20M was originally scheduled to be the final vehicle to dock to the Pirs module, as it was tasked with disposing las vegas cheap hotels of the Pirs module in order to free up the Service Module (SM) Nadir port for the arrival of Russia s Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) in December.
Under this plan, instead of undocking from Pirs, Pirs itself would instead have been undocked from the ISS on 18 December 2013, with Progress M-20M (still docked to Pirs) performing the necessary departure burns, and, later on, the de-orbit burn for the disposal of Pirs.
Since then, NASASpaceflight.com sources have reported that the MLM launch has slipped into April 2014, and so now the plan appears to be to undock Progress M-20M from Pirs as normal on 4 February 2014, with Progress M-22M instead being tasked with disposing of Pirs in April 2014.