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Mission Control Center is ready to work with THC "Progress M-13M". / October 27, 2011 /

In the Mission Control Center Engineering Research Institute held a meeting operational and technical guidance on the issue of readiness for the upcoming work with the cargo ship «Progress M-13M».

The meeting heard reports of Representatives of the PMU, RSC «Energia» them. SP Korolev and other organizations that make up the Lead Operational Control Team Russian segment of International Space Station.

Experts have reported on the complete cycle of training, performing scheduled preventive maintenance work on the software and hardware, and reaffirmed the readiness of personnel to the flight of the truck.

Logistics vehicle (THC), «Progress M-13M» to the station takes more than 2.6 tons of cargo.

According to the MCC launched ballistic Service THC «Progress M-13M» is scheduled for October 30 at 14 hours 11 minutes 12 seconds Moscow time.

Docking station with a truck is scheduled for November 2. Overseeing the process of docking flight engineers will be a long twenty-ninth expedition to the ISS cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Space Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, JAXA.

Press-service of Federal Space Agency, and PCOs

Source: www.roscosmos.ru

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