Back with the ISS.
Soon to be working on leak checks, for hatch opening later. Around an orbit or so away.
Hooks now being driven...
Report now that the hooks are closed.
Rob Navias now reporting that the hooks and latches are closed.
Rob Navias now signing off coverage with upcoming NASA TV schedule...
TsUP-M in Korolyov annouced exact time of docking: 18:40:25 UTC.
24.12.2007 "progress M-61" works for the science
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=2705 on 22 December, 2007, 06 hours 59 minutes 52 seconds Moscow time automatic cargo ship "progress M-61" was unjointed from the international space station , after freeing stern moorage on the official module "star".
"progress M-61" was injected into orbit on 2 August, 2007. It delivered to the station more than two and one-half of the tons of different equipment, it was cargo and expendable materiallov. In the course of the joint flight with the station with the aid of the engines of this space truck it was executed two corrections of its orbit.
In the autonomous flight of ship "progress M-61" are planned the studies by the ground environment of the observation of the reflective characteristics of the plasma environment of automatic spacecraft with the work of its jet engines (experiment "Plasma- progress").
The producer of experiment - TSNII - CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE are machine building (g. Korolev Moscow region).
On 18 January ship "progress M-61" will be brought from the orbit and will end its existence above the water area of the southern part of Pacific Ocean far from the navigable ways.