NASA Statement on Success of Russian Progress Launch

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oct. 30, 2011

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1100 
jbuck@xxxxxxxx 

RELEASE: 11-366

NASA STATEMENT ON SUCCESS OF RUSSIAN PROGRESS LAUNCH

Successful Launch Sets Stage for Soyuz Flight  

WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from Bill Gerstenmaier, 
associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA 
Headquarters in Washington, on Sunday's launch of the Progress 45 
spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off 
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:11 a.m. EDT (4:11 
p.m. Baikonur local time). 

"We congratulate our Russian colleagues on Sunday's successful launch 
of ISS Progress 45, and the spacecraft is on its way to the 
International Space Station. Pending the outcome of a series of 
flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful flight 
sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for mid-November. 
The December Soyuz mission will restore the space station crew size 
to six and continue normal crew rotations." 

For more information about the space station, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/station 

	
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