Progress MS-07 Cargo Spacecraft Docks With ISS in Automatic Mode

The Progress MS-07 has finally reached ISS to deliver a special present for the cosmonauts: a hand-painted spacesuit.

KOROLYOV (Moscow region) (Sputnik) — The Progress MS-07 cargo spacecraft docked to the ISS in an automatic mode on Monday, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Mission Control Center.

The Progress MS-07 was launched on Saturday in a second attempt on the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket.

The spacecraft delivered fuel, food, water, parcels to the crew from relatives and friends, as well as other cargoes.

Progress MS-07 Cargo Vehicle Completes Textbook Rendezvous after Two-Day Flight to ISS — https://t.co/Zdbp6BeXGM pic.twitter.com/blWAbukQvA

— ISS Updates (@ISS101) 16 октября 2017 г.

Also, Russian and American cancer patients have made a special present for the cosmonauts: a hand-painted spacesuit, named Victory.

The cancer patients have decorated the spacesuit as a part of the Space Suit Art Project, supported by Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other international space agencies.

The unusual spacesuit, named Victory, hand-painted by cancer patients in Russia and the United States.

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