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Progress M-63, identified by NASA as Progress 28 or 28P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was a Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, with the serial number 363. Progress M-63 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Launch occurred at 13:02 GMT on 5 February 2008. The spacecraft docked with the ''Pirs'' module at 14:38 GMT on 7 February.〔 〕 Pirs had been vacated by the departure of Progress M-62 which had undocked on 4 February.〔(NASA: Progress 28 )〕 Progress M-63 successfully docked using the automated ''Kurs'' system, however cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko was standing by to guide it in using the backup manual TORU system should it have been necessary.〔 Progress M-63 remained docked for two months before undocking at 08:49 GMT on 7 April 2008. It was deorbited at 11:50 GMT on 7 April 2008.〔 The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, with any remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 12:36 GMT.〔 Progress M-63 carried supplies to the International Space Station, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research. Its cargo consisted of over of propellant, of oxygen and air, approximately of water and of dry cargo. The total mass of its cargo was .〔 ==See also== *List of Progress flights *List of unmanned spaceflights to the ISS 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Progress M-63」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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