The International Space Station (ISS)

MOSCOW, May 17 (Xinhua) -- A Russian cargo spaceship has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the Mission Control near Moscow said on Saturday.

The Progress M-14 spaceship docked with the station at 01:39 Moscow time on Saturday (2139 GMT), the Mission Control said.

The cargo spaceship delivered some 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel, equipment and gifts from the crews' families to Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Garrett E. Reisman.

The spaceship, which blasted off from central Asia's Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan Thursday, is an unmanned version of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is expected to be filled with waste and burst during its way back to Earth after undocking.

The Progress is one of two cargo types of spacecraft supplying the ISS. The other is the European Space Agency's automatic transfer vehicle (ATV), the Jules Verne.
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