January 31, 2004. Korolev, Moscow Area.

The Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M1-11 docked to the International Space Station (ISS) following a free flight, rendezvous maneuvers, station fly-around, station-keeping and berthing.
The Service Module Zvezda axial port contact occurred at 16:13:11 Moscow time, when the station was in the Russian ground site coverage.
The transport cargo vehicle/tanker delivered about 2.4 tons of cargoes to the ISS including about 900 kg of propellant for the Station purposes, oxygen, portable water and food products, onboard system outfitting and maintenance equipment for the Russian and US Segments; science hardware, crew flight-data files, parcels for the crew, hardware for the Japanese project and upcoming experimental program as part of the visiting crew for Andre Kuipers, ESA astronaut of Dutch nationality.
The vehicle transfer hatch was open on January 31, 2004 at 21:00.
The Expedition crew ISS-8 consisting of Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri (Flight engineer) and US astronaut Michael Foule (Commander) will have to transfer and accommodate the delivered cargoes to the Station, deinstall the vehicle rendezvous system equipment for its subsequent utilization, as well as load the wasted materials and equipment to the vehicle.
The approach to the Space Station, its fly-about, stationkeeping, berthing and docking were performed in the automatic mode under control of the Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) of the Mission Control Center in Moscow (MCC-M) and the ISS-8 crew.
During the Progress docking to the ISS, the MCC-M was attended by N.F. Moiseev, and V.A. Grin', co-chairmen of the State Board, Yu.P. Semenov, Technical Manager of Russian Piloted Space Programs, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, representatives and specialists from NASA, RSC Energia and allied space organizations.
The ISS of about 181.8 tons currently operates consisting of the Russian Segment, including Functional Cargo Module Zarya, Service Module Zvezda, docking module-compartment Pirs, manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-3, cargo vehicle Progress M1-11; U.S. On-Orbit Segment, including modules Unity and Destiny, airlock Quest and multi-element truss structure with deployed solar arrays.
The Station onboard systems operate in design modes.
The ISS flight control is provided by MCC-M LOCT (Korolev, Moscow area) in interaction with the U.S. Mission Control Center in Houston (MCC-H). The Flight is directed by pilot-cosmonaut V.A. Soloviev.
The Space Complex performs a near-orbit flight with the following parameters: maximum altitude of 390.7 km, minimum altitude of 364.9 km, period of revolution of 91.8 min.
Upon completion of the docking operations, Yu.P. Semenov, RSC Energia General Designer informed the journalists present at MCC-M about the ISS program planning for 2004, stating that after the US. Shuttle Columbia accident the station continues its manned flight for a year, that is provided by the Russian party with regard to Soyuz TMA and Progress M, Progress M1 flights for crew rotation and delivery of required cargoes. In so doing, the main load for implementation of the ISS manned flight in the current year is likely to be born by the Russian party, and primarily by RSC Energia as the prime contractor of the Russian Segment of the ISS, that will be forced to take a more than a billion credit to support the ISS program-related activities in 2004.