May 15, 2007. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia – MCC-M,
Korolev, Moscow region
Cargo transport spacecraft Progress M-60 which was launched from the Baikonur launch site on May 12, 2007, after three days of free flight in a low Earth orbit, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacecraft rendezvous with ISS, its fly-around, station-keeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The spacecraft approached the docking port on the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment. The initial contact with the space station docking port took place at 09:10 Moscow Time.
The crew of Expedition 15 to ISS (ISS-15) – cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin (RSC Energia cosmonaut tester, the crew commander), Oleg Kotov (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center cosmonaut tester, a flight engineer) and Sunita Williams (NASA astronaut, a flight engineer) – were controlling the rendezvous and docking from the Space Station.
Progress M-60 delivered to the Space Station 2.56 tons of various cargoes, including 815 kg of propellant, 420 kg of potable water, 241 kg of containers with food, 136 kg of cargoes of equipment for various space station systems, 63 kg of equipment for scientific experiments, on-board documentation and parcels for the crew. 377 kg of the cargos are intended for the US segment of the ISS.
The crew is to unload the spacecraft and stow the delivered cargoes on-board the station, while moving into the spacecraft compartments the materials and hardware, which are no longer needed on-board ISS.
The mission of the ISS Russian Segment is controlled by the Lead Operations Control Team (LOCT) from the Mission Control Center near Moscow (MCC-M) in cooperation with the US Mission Control Center in Houston (MCC-H). The on-board systems of the spacecraft and space station modules operate in normal mode.
The Progress M-60 rendezvous, approach and docking with the space station was controlled under the supervision of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia President, general designer and the Technical Manager for flight tests of manned space systems N.N. Sevastianov, and the head of LOCT, and RSC Energia vice president and deputy general designer V.A. Soloviev.
For information:
1. The Russian Segment of the ISS consists of the functional cargo module Zarya, Service Module Zvezda, docking compartment/module Pirs, transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-10, Progress M-59 and Progress M-60. The US orbital segment consists of Unity and Destiny modules, Quest airlock and a multisegment truss structure with deployed solar arrays.
2. ISS with a mass of 218.1 tons is flying in a low Earth orbit with the following parameters: the maximum altitude is 353.8 km; the minimal altitude is 330.2 km; the orbital period is 91.1 min.
  
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