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Traveling about 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean and just west of the South American coast, the unpiloted ISS Progress 48 Russian cargo ship docked at 9:18 p.m. EDT Aug. 1 to the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station. The craft is delivering 1,962 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 925 pounds of water and 2,817 pounds of spare parts and experiment hardware for a total of 2.9 tons of food, fuel and equipment to be delivered to the six crew members on the orbital laboratory. Progress 48 is scheduled to remain docked to Pirs until late December. For the first time, a Progress resupply spacecraft performed a same-day rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station. ISS Progress 48 verified an abbreviated launch-to-rendezvous schedule designed to reduce the typical two-day flight between a launch and docking. The goal is to use this new approach for future Progress and Soyuz flights.