Progress M-64, identified by NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

 as Progress 29 or 29P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station

International Space Station

The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...

. It was a Progress-M

Progress-M

Progress-M , also known as Progress 7K-TGM, is a Russian, previously Soviet spacecraft which is used to resupply space stations. It is a variant of the Progress spacecraft, originally built in the late 1980s as a modernised version of the Progress 7K-TG spacecraft, using new systems developed for...

 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number

Serial number

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 364.

Progress M-64 was launched by a Soyuz-U

Soyuz-U

The Soyuz-U launch vehicle is an improved version of the original Soyuz LV. Soyuz-U is part of the R-7 family of rockets based on the R-7 Semyorka missile. Members of this rocket family were designed by the TsSKB design bureau and constructed at the Progress Factory in Samara, Russia....

 carrier rocket from Site 1/5

Gagarin's Start

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 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...

. Launch occurred at 20:22 GMT on 14 May 2008. The spacecraft docked with the nadir port of the Zarya

Zarya

Zarya , also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB , was the first module of the International Space Station to be launched. The FGB provided electrical power, storage, propulsion, and guidance to the ISS during the initial stage of assembly...

module at 21:39 GMT on 16 May, two minutes behind schedule, by means of the Kurs

Kurs (docking system)

Kurs is a radio telemetry system used by the Soviet and later Russian space program.Kurs was developed by the Research Institute of Precision Instruments before 1985 and manufactured by the Kiev Radio Factory .- History :...

 system. Following undocking at 19:46 GMT on 1 September, it spent a week in free-flight conducting experiments for the Plazma-Progress programme. It was deorbited on 8 September, with the deorbit burn beginning at 20:47. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 21:33.

Cargo

Progress M-65 carried 2112 kilograms (4,656.2 lb) of cargo to the International Space Station. 1292 kilograms (2,848.4 lb) of this was dry cargo, including food for the crew, equipment for conducting scientific research, and a replacement Sokol KV-2 spacesuit for Sergey Volkov, as his original suit had been damaged. It also carried a docking target for attaching the MRM-2

Mini-Research Module 2

Poisk , also known as the Mini-Research Module 2 , , or МИМ 2, is a docking module of the International Space Station. Its original name was Docking Module 2 ), as it is almost identical to the Pirs Docking Compartment...

module to the zenith port of the Zvezda module.

In addition to dry cargo, it carried 1230 kilograms (2,711.7 lb) of fuel for reboosting and refuelling the ISS, 29 kilograms (63.9 lb) of oxygen and 21 kilograms (46.3 lb) of air for the crew to breathe, and 420 kilograms (925.9 lb) of water.