Cargo Ship Docks With Doomed Mir
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian cargo craft successfully docked with the Mir space station this morning, starting the countdown to the destruction of the 15-year-old Soviet-built orbiter.
Space officials said the Progress vessel, which is ferrying fuel and oxygen supplies to Mir, docked without problems.
Ground control engineers will use the cargo vessel to nudge Mir out of orbit in about a month, and plan to ditch the 130-ton vessel in the Pacific Ocean in early March.
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