Rob Navias<br />Johnson Space Center, Houston January 29, 2003<br />(Phone: 281/483-5111)<br /><br />Allard Beutel<br />Headquarters, Washington<br />(Phone: 202/358-0951)<br /><br />NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-009<br /><br />NEW CARGO SHIP DOCKS WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION<br /><br /> The tenth Russian Progress resupply vehicle to the <br />International Space Station is scheduled to dock at <br />approximately 9:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Feb. 4.<br /><br />Commentary and coverage, originating from the Space Station <br />Flight Control Room at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, <br />will be carried live on NASA Television beginning at 9 a.m. <br />EST. NASA TV is on GE-2, Transponder 9C, vertical <br />polarization at 85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with <br />audio at 6.8 MHz.<br /><br />The Progress Nine ship that arrived at the Station in <br />September is scheduled to undock from the aft port of the <br />Zvezda Service Module on Feb. 1. The new Progress launches <br />from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Feb. 2 for its <br />two-day trip to the Station. Neither the Progress Nine <br />undocking nor the Progress 10 launch will be televised.<br /><br />Progress 10 will carry supplies for the Expedition Seven <br />crew, which arrives at the Space Station in March. It will <br />also carry repaired components for the Destiny laboratory <br />Microgravity Science Glovebox that experienced a power <br />failure last November.<br /><br />Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer <br />Nikolai Budarin and NASA Station Science Officer Don Pettit <br />are in the third month of their four-month mission on board <br />the Space Station. The crew will unload the Progress shortly <br />after docking. Pettit will immediately begin work on the <br />Microgravity Science Glovebox, so it can be reactivated to <br />support all planned science investigations before the end of <br />the Expedition 6 mission.<br /><br /><br />-end-