Progress M-05M
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Progress M-05M, identified by NASA as Progress 37P, is a Progress spacecraft launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency in April 2010 to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft carried fresh food and supplies for the ISS crew. Progress M-05M also hauled some special care packages for the station crew that included confectioneries, books and new movies.
Progress M-05M approaching the ISS.
Launch of the Soyuz rocket carrying Progress M-05M.
Progress M-05M approaches the ISS for docking.
Progress M-05M (background) is docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment.
Oleg Kotov
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Oleg Valeriyevich Kotov was born on 27 October 1965 in Simferopol, Crimean oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. After a career as a physician assigned to the Soviet space program, he joined the Russian cosmonaut corps. He has flown three long duration spaceflights on the International Space Station logging over 526 days in space. Most recently, Kotov flew on the Soyuz TMA-10M/Expedition 37/Expedition 38 long duration spaceflight, from September 2013 until March 2014.
Oleg Kotov and STS-132 commander Kenneth Ham shake hands at the farewell ceremony.
Oleg Kotov sitting in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft just minutes after landing.
Oleg Kotov on Expedition 38 performs the Motocard experiment in the Zvezda Service Module.