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| | | | | | | European experiment hardware reaches the International Space Station
16 June 2003
| Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, an unmanned Progress supply vehicle approaches the Pirs Docking Compartment (out of frame) attached to the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS), completing a three-day automated flight. The Progress 11 resupply craft, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 8 June 2003, carried more than two tons of food, fuel, water, supplies and scientific gear for the Expedition 7 crew aboard the Station. The Progress docked with ISS at 13:17 CET on 11 June 2003.
Credits: NASA | |  |  | |
| | | | | The unmanned Russian Progress resupply craft successfully blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 8 June 2003, carrying more than two tons of food, fuel, water, supplies and scientific gear for the Expedition 7 crew aboard the International Space Station.
Credits: Energia | | | | |
| | | | | | APIS experiment hardware for the Spanish Soyuz mission was taken to ISS on board an unmanned Progress supply vehicle. The Progress vehicle docked with ISS on 11 June 2003. The APIS experiment aims to show the difference in the motion of a body rotating about its centre of gravity when its mass is distributed differently. | | | | |
| | | | | | 3D camera with its launch container. The 3D camera takes pictures in 3D that can be viewed with a special viewing device. The 3D camera was launched to ISS on 8 June 2003 on board a Progress supply vehicle (assembly flight 11P) in preparation for Pedro Duque's Soyuz mission planned for October 2003. | | | | |
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