The supply vessel Progress is to be launched Sunday August 6, to link up to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian space control center (TSOUP) said Thursday.
The vessel will provide fuel, technical equipment, food, and water for the space ship that will get its first team in October.
Progress will be launched from the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan with the support of space craft Soyuz, the same soucre said.
Two American spaceships and a second Progress vessel are expected to join the ISS before the team of US commander William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalyov arrive on October 30.
All systems of the Zvezda module, which was launched Wednesday, “function well”, TSOUP reported.
Zvezda is a module comprising the living and working quarters of the ISS and housing the navigation and guidance systems until the American-built module Destiny takes over.
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