Progress M1-2 was a Progress spacecraft which was launched by

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in 2000 to resupply the Mir

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. It was a

Progress-M1 Progress-M1 (russian: Прогресс-М1, GRAU indices 11F615A55 and 11F615A70), also known as Progress 7K-TGM1, is a Russian spacecraft which is used to resupply space stations. It is a variant of the Progress spacecraft, derived from the Pr ...

11F615A55 spacecraft, with the

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252. Progress M1-2 was launched by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from Site 1/5 at the

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...

. Launch occurred at 20:08:02 GMT on 25 April 2000. The spacecraft docked with the Aft port on the '' Kvant-1'' module of Mir at 21:28:47 GMT on 27 April. It remained docked for 171 days before undocking at 18:06 GMT on 15 October to make way for Progress M-43. It was deorbited later the same day. The spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at around 23:29 GMT. Progress M1-2 carried supplies to Mir, including food, water and oxygen for the crew and equipment for conducting scientific research. Progress M1-2 was the first privately funded resupply mission to a

. It was funded by RKK Energia as part of the MirCorp programme. It was the last Progress spacecraft to be docked to Mir whilst a crew was present aboard the station.

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