article_snippet.sent: Russian spacecraft, including those used to send astronauts to the ISS, recently have acquired the capability to take a more direct six-hour route to the orbiting outpost.
article_snippet.sent: The crew on board the International Space Station has pressed ahead with maintenance work today as well as biomedical experiment activities,' said Navias.
article_snippet.sent: Progress is carrying about 2.5 tons of cargo, including fuel, equipment, oxygen and food, to the space station, which currently has a six-person crew from Russia, the United States and Italy.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured a cargo ship in the same family, Progress M-59, as seen from the International Space Station (right) during docking .
article_snippet.sent: Both the Russian and USOS segments of the International Space Station continue to operate normally and are adequately supplied well beyond the next planned resupply flight, Nasa said in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: a cargo ship also is delivering a copy of the Banner of Victory, the banner raised over the Reichstag in Berlin by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: a cargo ship launched this morning on a Soyuz 2-1A rocket (pictured).  
article_snippet.sent: Progress is carrying about 2.5 tons of cargo, including fuel, equipment, oxygen and food, to the space station, which currently has a six-person crew from Russia, the United States and Italy .