OTD In Space – January 20: 1st Progress Cargo Delivery Mission Launched
On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the Salyut 6 space station.
Since then, more than 150 Progress spacecrafts have launched cargo to crews aboard the International Space Station as well as earlier, smaller space stations built by Russia and the Soviet Union. Progress 1 carried nearly 3,000 pounds of food, water, scientific equipment and spare parts to the two-person crew aboard Salyut 6. The cosmonauts unloaded the cargo—then filled the spacecraft with trash and sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Since then, more than 150 Progress spacecrafts have launched cargo to crews aboard the International Space Station as well as earlier, smaller space stations built by Russia and the Soviet Union. Progress 1 carried nearly 3,000 pounds of food, water, scientific equipment and spare parts to the two-person crew aboard Salyut 6. The cosmonauts unloaded the cargo—then filled the spacecraft with trash and sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
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00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship
00:09 on a mission to deliver supplies to the Salyut 6 space station.
00:12 Since then, more than 150 Progress spacecraft have launched cargo to the crews aboard the International Space Station,
00:18 as well as earlier, smaller space stations built by Russia and the Soviet Union.
00:22 Progress 1 carried nearly 3,000 pounds of food, water, scientific equipment, and spare parts
00:27 to the two-person crew aboard Salyut 6.
00:30 The cosmonauts unloaded the cargo, then filled the spacecraft with trash
00:33 and sent it off to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
00:36 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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