Jul 16 1999
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (5MB PDF)
A Russian Progress M42 cargo spacecraft launched with a Soyuz-U rocket to deliver supplies to the Mir space station. Supplies included equipment necessary to keep an uninhabited station operational and equipment for conducting a controlled reentry, in the event that Russia could not obtain the resources necessary to continue operation. The launch was the first since Kazakhstan's partial relaxation of a launch ban at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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