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Progress resupply spaceship launched to ISS

14:09 12/05/2007

MOSCOW, May 12 (RIA Novosti) - Progress M-60, a Russian resupply ship, separated from a Soyuz launch vehicle Saturday to carry food, fuel, and new equipment to the global orbital station.

Progress is expected to dock to the International Space Station (ISS) May 15.

The current ISS residents are Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov. The previous crew of Mikhail Tyurin and Michal Lopez-Alegria returned to Earth April 21. U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams will also continue her ISS mission until summer.

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