On this day in space! July 5, 2015: Russian cargo ship arrives at space station

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On July 5, 2015, a Russian Progress cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station, returning Russia's resupply ship to service after a failure.

On July 5, 2015, a Russian Progress cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station, returning Russia's resupply ship to service after a failure. The Progress M-28M (ISS 60P) spacecraft launched into orbit days earlier, on July 3, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Roscosmos' Progress M-28M (ISS 60P) cargo ship is seen from the International Space Station prior to it docking on July 5, 2015. (Image credit: NASA)
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Progress M-28M was packed with more than 3 tons of food, water, fuel, hardware and other supplies for the Expedition 44 crewmembers aboard the space station. This successful delivery ended a streak of cargo launch failures after a SpaceX rocket exploded, another Progress spacecraft fell back to Earth after launch and an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo ship exploded just after liftoff in October 2014. Thankfully this mission went more smoothly than the two right before it.

Progress M-28M remained docked at the space station until Dec. 19. After the astronauts stuffed it with trash, they sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

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Hanneke Weitering
Hanneke Weitering
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Hanneke Weitering is a multimedia journalist in the Pacific Northwest reporting on the future of aviation at FutureFlight.aero and Aviation International News and was previously the Editor for Spaceflight and Astronomy news here at Space.com. As an editor with over 10 years of experience in science journalism she has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her hometown of Knoxville, she earned her graduate degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke joined the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff writer and producer, covering topics including spaceflight and astronomy. She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos. 

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