In this photo provided by the Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Soyuz rocket blasts off from the launch pad at Russia's space facility in Baikonur. A new docking module for the International Space Station was delivered on Wednesday by a Russian rocket. The rocket lifted off on time. The Progress cargo ship with the Prichal docking module attached to it was carried from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The photo is from the Press Service of the Space Agency.
A Russian cargo craft successfully docked with the International Space Station Friday after a two-day journey in space.
Prichal docked with the outpost at 6:19 p.m. Moscow time is 1519 GMT. The Russian segment of the station will be able to expand in the future because it has six docking ports.
The docking port of the new Russian Nauka laboratory module is where the module moored.
The Progress cargo ship with Prichal attached to it was carried on a Soyuz rocket from the Russian launch facility in Baikonur. The cargo ship went into space.
The space station is getting 700 kilo of various cargo from Progress and is expected to undock from the station on December 22.
The crew of three cosmonauts, Denis Matveev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergei Korsakov, are expected to dock at the new module on March 18, 2022.
The Russian crew on the station started training for the module's arrival, using manual controls in case the docking system failed.
The space outpost is operated by six people, including five NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts.
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