Resupply spacecraft to blast off from Baikonur Wed

MOSCOW, April 27 (Itar-Tass) - This year's second Russian resupply
Progress spacecraft is to blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on
Wednesday for a journey to the International Space Station (ISS).
A Federal Space Agency official has told Itar-Tass, "The liftoff of
the Progress M-10M from the Gagarin launch site is scheduled for 17:05,
Moscow time." The spacecraft is to bring to orbit more than 2.6 tonnes of
various supplies necessary for ISS functioning and crew life sustenance.
The spacecraft will carry fuel and equipment for the station, a new
unit for the oxygen regeneration system Electron, water, oxygen, clothing
and food, family parcels and gifts to the crew: Russian cosmonauts Dmitry
Kondratyev, Alexander Samokutyayev, and Andrei Borisenko, American
astronauts Catherine Coleman and Ronald Garan, and Italian astronaut
Paolo Nespoli.
Along with standard supplies, the spacecraft will deliver a new party
of "space travelers": fruit flies and the seeds of tomatoes and wheat for
an orbital garden. Apart from standard food rations, the space crew will
also receive fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as pickled cucumbers and
favourite delicacies in parcels from relatives.
Psychologists are sending them DVD disks with American comedies and
thrillers, books by Strugatsky brothers, and a personal present to flight
engineer Borisenko who marked his 47th birthday in orbit on April 17.
The Ppogress spacecraft is to moor at the docking module Pier at
18:29, Moscow time, on April 29 in an automatic mode.