ISS Expedition 18 Progress 31P Approach

ISS018-E-009880 (30 Nov. 2008) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, an unpiloted Progress supply vehicle approaches the International Space Station, bringing more than two tons of food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the Expedition 18 crewmembers aboard the station. Progress 31 docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment at 6:28 a.m. (CST) on Nov. 30, after a four day flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.