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. The spacecraft carr
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 cosmon
Progress M-05M
…UTC on 1 May 2010. During rendezvous operations, when Progress M-05M was about a kilometre from the station, its Kurs docking system failed. Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov used the backup TORU system to manually control the rendezvous and docking, setting a record for the furthest distance a Progress spacecraft was flown…
Kotov in 2006
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.