
ISS013-E-43030 (26 June 2006) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, an unpiloted Progress supply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. The Progress 22 resupply craft launched at 10:08 a.m. (CDT) on June 24, 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the Expedition 13 crewmembers onboard the station. Progress automatically docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment at 11:25 a.m. (CDT) on June 26 as the spacecraft and the station flew approximately 220 miles above a point near northern Africa.
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