Article Posted on : - Sep 27, 2009

A file photo of Progress M-67.

MOSCOW (BNS): Russia’s Progress M-67 cargo spaceship, which provided supplies to the International Space Station, re-entered Earth and took its "burial" in the Pacific on Sunday, the Russian Mission Control said.

"Fragments of the Progress M-67 space freighter with waste material from the International Space Station (ISS) drowned at about 14.20 Moscow time [10.20 GMT]...several thousand kilometers to the east of New Zealand," space officials were quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.

Progress M-67, Russia’s last space freighter with an analogue control system, had arrived at the ISS on July 29, carrying 2.5 tons of supplies, including fuel, water and other equipment.

It undocked from the space station on September 21.

During its automatic flight, the craft was used as an orbital laboratory to conduct a series of geophysical experiments under the Plasma-Progress programme.