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ISS News: Progress M1-7 (Progress 6) EVA

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Launch of Endeavour (STS-108/UF-1) was delayed due to weather, and the failure to hard dock Progress M1-7 (Progress 6 in history blind NASA designtaions). An unplanned EVA was required from the DC1 airlock to clear a long thin gasket from the docking collar of the Service Module which was preventing a air tight seal between the Progress and the Service Module. This was reminicent to the EVA carried out on Mir early in its assembly with the Kvant module also failed to make an air tight seal due to a plastic garbage bag which had become snagged to the docking port due to im proper closing of a Progress hatch after loading it with trash before it undocked prior to the Kvant docking. Cosmonauts of the Expedition crew easily found the gasket and removed it from the docking port so that the Progress could be hard docked successfully.

Progress M1-7 approaches the rear docking port of the Service Module

The Progress as seen from inside the station

The arrows aboce point to the thin gasket being carried by a cosmonaut going back into the Docking Compartment airlock

Progress docked to the Service Module

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