Progress 31P Docking OPS

ISS018-E-009695 (30 Nov. 2008) --- Astronaut Michael Fincke (foreground), Expedition 18 commander; and cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, flight engineer, monitor the approach of the Progress 31 supply vehicle at the manual TORU docking system controls in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space 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. Lonchakov used the TORU system to bring the Progress to its docking port.