Categories: Space FlightSpace Station

Watch Progress 42’s Fiery Re-Entry

The International Space Station crew were able to watch the Progress 42 cargo ship burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after it undocked from the ISS on October 29, 2011. We posted a single picture taken by Commander Mike Fossum earlier this week, but here’s a video compiled from several images from ISS cameras.

The video is from NASA’s Earth Observatory Astronaut Videos

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy has been with Universe Today since 2004, and has published over 6,000 articles on space exploration, astronomy, science and technology. She is the author of two books: "Eight Years to the Moon: the History of the Apollo Missions," (2019) which shares the stories of 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make landing on the Moon possible; and "Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos" (2016) tells the stories of those who work on NASA's robotic missions to explore the Solar System and beyond. Follow Nancy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Nancy_A and and Instagram at and https://www.instagram.com/nancyatkinson_ut/