By RIA Novosti
Mission Control (near Moscow) : The Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft carrying food, water and fuel for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) and equipment to repair onboard computers has automatically docked with the global orbital station, the mission control said.
The cargo ship docked with the ISS on schedule at 22.40 p.m. (18.40 GMT) Sunday delivering much needed additional equipment to fix the onboard laptops of the Russian segment, which crashed June 11. The Russian crew, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, had temporarily repaired the damage but extra equipment was needed.
The Progress also delivered equipment to conduct space experiments as part of the Japanese programme. This is the third Russian cargo spacecraft sent to the ISS this year. By the end of 2007 the Soyuz cargo ship will also make a scheduled flight to the ISS.
Apart from Yurchikhin and Kotov, the current ISS crew includes American astronaut Clayton Anderson.