Progress M-1 (), was a

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uncrewed cargo spacecraft which was launched in 1989 to resupply the

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space station. The eighteenth of sixty four

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spacecraft to visit Mir, it was the first

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spacecraft to be launched, and had the

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201. It carried supplies including food, water and oxygen for the Mir EO-5 crew aboard Mir, as well as equipment for conducting scientific research, and fuel for adjusting the station's orbit and performing manoeuvres. At the time of docking, Mir was uncrewed, and remained so until the arrival of the Mir EO-5 crew two weeks later.

Launch

Progress M-1 was launched at 03:09:32 UTC on 23 August 1989, atop a

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carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the

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. It docked with the forward port of

Mir Core Module ''Mir'' ( lit. ''Peace'' or ''World''), DOS-7, was the first module of the Soviet/Russian ''Mir'' space station complex, in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. Generally referred to as either the core module or base block, the module was l ...

at 05:19:02 UTC on 25 August 1989. During the time it was docked, Mir was in an orbit of around . Progress M-1 remained docked with Mir for three months before undocking at 09:02:23 UTC on 1 December 1989 to make way for the

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module.

Decay

Progress M-1 was deorbited at 10:32:00 UTC, a few hours after it had undocked. It burned up in the atmosphere over the

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, with remaining debris landing in the ocean at around 11:21 UTC.

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Launch

Decay

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