[meteorite-list] Russian Spaceship Set For Fiery End Tonight

[Ron Baalke]

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060619/49694074.html

Russian spaceship set for fiery end in Pacific after leaving ISS
RIA Novosti
June 19, 2006

MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian launch vehicle will be 
sunk in the Pacific Ocean Monday evening after being undocked 
from the world's sole orbital station earlier in the day, a 
Mission Control official said.

The Progress M-55, which has been loaded with garbage from the 
International Space Station, will be undocked Monday at 7.06 p.m. 
Moscow time (3.06 p.m. GMT). The parts of the vehicle that do not 
completely burn up in the Earth's atmosphere will crash into the 
Pacific Ocean at 9.53 p.m. Moscow time (5.53 p.m. GMT) in the 
"spaceship cemetery" not far from Christmas Island where the Mir 
station was sunk in 2000.

The Federal Space Agency said May 30 that a Progress M-57 
spaceship would be launched on a Soyuz-U rocket on June 24. When 
it docks with the ISS two days later, it will deliver fuel, 
consumables, scientific and research equipment and water for 
Russian and American astronauts Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff 
Williams.

The agency said the ship would be launched from the Baikonur 
space center, which Russia leases from the Central Asian republic 
of Kazakhstan.

Vinogradov and Williams, the 13th ISS expedition, began their 
mission on board the orbital station on April 1.