Progress 42
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Progress 42 ( ) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1990 to resupply the Mir space station.
Progress 42 ( ) was a Soviet unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft, which was launched in May 1990 to resupply the Mir space station. ==Launch== Progress 42 launched on 5 May 1990 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket. ==Docking== Progress 42 docked with the aft port of the Kvant-1 module of Mir on 7 May 1990 at 22:45:03 UTC, and was undocked on 27 May 1990 at 07:08:58 UTC. ==Decay== It remained in orbit until 27 May 1990, when it was deorbited. The deorbit burn occurred at 11:40:00 UTC and the mission ended at 12:27:30 UTC. ==See also== 1990 in spaceflight List of Progress missions List of uncrewed spaceflights to Mir ==References==
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