Cargo spacecraft "Progress-M 21M"

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PROGRESS M-21M is a uncrewed Russian resupply spacecraft, loaded with almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the six Expedition 38 crew members aboard the ISS.

It is ISS mission 53P, to deliver supplies to the ISS and docked at the rear longitudinal port of ISS/Zvezda.
Launch delayed from Oct.16 and Nov 20, 2013.
A new cargo ship, Progress M-21M, was launched on Nov 25, 2013. It made a 1.5 km flyby of ISS at 21:50 UTC on Nov 27 to test the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system, and then a re-rendezvous on Nov 29. A glitch forced a switch to manual TORU control for the last 60m to docking with the Zvezda module at 2230 UTC.
Progress M-21M undocked from Zvezda on Jun 9, 2014 at 1330 UTC and was deorbited the same day, with debris falling in the S Pacific around 1723 UTC.

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