Progress M-53 (18P) approaches the ISS during Expedition 11

ISS011-E-09178 (18 June 2005) --- Backdropped by a blue and white Earth, an unpiloted Progress supply vehicle approaches the international space station. The Progress 18 resupply craft launched at 6:09 p.m. (CDT) on June 16, 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver two tons of supplies, food, water, fuel and equipment to the Expedition 11 crewmembers onboard the station. Progress docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 7:42 p.m. (CDT) on June 18 as the station flew approximately 225 statute miles, above a point near Beijing, China.