| Progress M-66 | |||||||||
| Mission Type: | ISS resupply | ||||||||
| Operator: | Roskosmos | ||||||||
| Cospar Id: | 2009-006A | ||||||||
| Satcat: | 33593 | ||||||||
| Mission Duration: | 97 days | ||||||||
| Spacecraft Type: | Progress-M s/n 366 | ||||||||
| Manufacturer: | RKK Energia | ||||||||
| Launch Date: | 10 February 2009, 05:49 UTC | ||||||||
| Launch Rocket: | Soyuz-U | ||||||||
| Launch Site: | Baikonur, Site 31/6 | ||||||||
| Disposal Type: | Deorbited | ||||||||
| Decay Date: | 18 May 2009, 15:14:45 UTC | ||||||||
| Orbit Epoch: | 10 February 2009 | ||||||||
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric | ||||||||
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth | ||||||||
| Orbit Inclination: | 51.6° | ||||||||
| Apsis: | gee | ||||||||
| Docking: |
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| Cargo Mass Press: | 1300 kg (dry cargo) | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Fuel: | 870 kg | ||||||||
| Cargo Mass Gas: | 50 kg (oxygen) and air | ||||||||
| Programme: | Progress ISS Resupply | ||||||||
| Previous Mission: | Progress M-01M | ||||||||
| Next Mission: | Progress M-02M | ||||||||
Progress M-66 (ru|Прогресс М-66|italic=yes), identified by NASA as Progress 32P, was a Progress spacecraft used to resupply the International Space Station. It was the penultimate flight of the Progress-M 11F615A55 spacecraft, using the spacecraft with the serial number 366.
Progress M-66 was launched at 05:49 UTC on 10 February 2009, by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was the first time Site 31 had been used for a Progress launch since Progress M-15 in 1992.
The spacecraft docked with the Pirs module of the ISS at 07:18 UTC on 13 February 2009.[1] It undocked at 15:18 UTC on 6 May 2009, to make way for Progress M-02M. It was deorbited at 14:28:30 UTC on 18 May 2009 following twelve days of free flight, during which it conducted experiments as part of the Plazma-Progress programme. Any debris from Progress M-66 that survived re-entry landed in the Pacific Ocean at around 15:14:45 UTC.
Progress M-66 delivered supplies to the International Space Station, including fuel, food and water for the crew, and equipment for conducting scientific research and establishing a 6-man crew capacity aboard the ISS. It also carried a new Orlan-MK spacesuit to replace one of the older Orlan-M suits previously used for EVAs from the station.[1]