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Progress MS-29 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station

Moscow, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) The Progress MS-29 cargo spacecraft successfully docked to the Poisk module of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the website of the Russian corporation Roscosmos.

Based on information released Sunday by Roscosmos, Progress MS-29 was launched into space on Thursday at 15:22 (Moscow time) with the help of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur space center.

The spacecraft transported more than 2,400 kilograms of cargo, including food, fuel, nearly half a ton of drinking water, and equipment for the orbital platform.

The resupply mission also brought to the space station equipment and materials for research experiments studying the digestive system, crystal growth, and 3D printing, among others.

Russians Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Alexandr Gorbunov, and Americans Donald Pettit, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Sunita Williams are currently on the orbital station.

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