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Science Russian spacecraft resupplies International Space Station | Russian spacecraft resupplies International Space Station |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 16 May 2007 | |
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In addition to the supplies, the Progress was carrying spare parts and scientific equipment, along with personal items for the three-person ISS crew comprising Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov and Sunita Williams. The Progress capsule will ferry garbage and other unwanted items back to the surface. The next NASA Shuttle mission to the ISS is scheduled for next month, and will deliver US astronaut Clay Anderson and return Williams to Earth. In related news, the Russian Space Agency has confirmed that ISS crews will be increased to six people by 2009. The existing small crew size has limited the amount of scientific work that can be done in orbit, but the station has to be ready to support six people and there needs to be sufficient Shuttle and Soyuz capacity to get astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the ISS - especially in the event of an emergency. "ISS crews will be increased to six people by 2009 and the station will go into full operation," said Alexei Krasnov, head of manned flights at the Russian Space Agency.{moscomment}
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