NASA's station blog says Roscosmos Progress 96 reached the space-facing port of ISS Poisk at 09:44 EDT on Saturday 19 September, with about 3 tons of food, fuel and supplies for Expedition 75. Space.com's Mike Wall, updating the same day, reports the same 09:44 ET capture after a 16 September Soyuz lift-off from Baikonur. Both pages say the ship is to stay about five months, then burn with trash.
NASA wrote that Progress 96 docked on its own at Poisk's space-facing port at 09:44 EDT on Saturday 19 September, with about 3 tons for Expedition 75. Space.com's Mike Wall, last updated 19 September, gives the same 09:44 ET clock and the same Poisk port. Wall adds that NASA's webcast placed the pair 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the Black Sea at contact. Those figures are the two pages' own.[1], [2]
NASA said the unpiloted craft lifted off at 09:33 EDT, 18:33 Baikonur time, on 16 September on a Soyuz from Kazakhstan. Space.com likewise dates the Soyuz departure to Wednesday 16 September and calls the run to the station a three-day chase. Neither page is a range-control transcript; both clocks are the publishers'.[1], [2]
NASA wrote that the ship is to remain about 5 months, then leave for a planned destructive re-entry that disposes of trash. Space.com says the same span: about five months attached, then loaded with trash and sent to burn in the atmosphere, the usual Progress fate. This card does not add a separate tracking statement.[1], [2]
