Progress M-10 (russian: Прогресс М-10, italic=yes) was a

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and subsequently

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n uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1991 to resupply the

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space station. The twenty-eighth of sixty-four

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spacecraft to visit Mir, it used the

Progress-M Progress-M (russian: Прогресс-М, GRAU indices 11F615A55 and 11F615A60), also known as Progress 7K-TGM, is a Russian, previously Soviet spacecraft which is used to resupply space stations. It is a variant of the Progress spacecraft, or ...

11F615A55 configuration, and had the

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211. It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the EO-10 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres. It carried the fourth

VBK-Raduga The VBK-Raduga capsule was a reentry capsule that was used for returning materials to Earth's surface from the space station ''Mir''. They were brought to ''Mir'' in the Progress-M Progress-M (russian: Прогресс-М, GRAU indices 11F6 ...

capsule, which was used to return experiment results and equipment to Earth when the Progress was deorbited. Progress M-10 was launched at 00:05:25 GMT on 17 October 1991, atop a

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carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the

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. Following four days of free flight, it docked with the Forward port of the core module on the second attempt, at 03:40:50 GMT on 21 October. The first attempt had been aborted by the Progress' onboard computer when the spacecraft was away from the station. During the 91 days for which Progress M-10 was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around ,

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at 51.6 degrees. It was launched by the Soviet Union, which was dissolved in December 1991, and along with most aspects of the

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me, Progress M-10 was inherited by Russia. It undocked from Mir at 07:13:44 GMT on 20 January 1992, and was deorbited few hours later to a destructive

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over the

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. The Raduga capsule landed at 12:03:30 GMT.

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