The International Space Station greeted the Russian Progress M-64 cargo spacecraft yesterday and the docking was completed without any incidents.

The spacecraft, running on autopilot, was launched atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and managed to complete its two-day flight successfully at 5:39 p.m. EDT. "A flawless docking of the newest resupply ship to the international space station," NASA spokesman Rob Navias said, according to SpaceFlightNow.

The mission involved a delivery made by the cargo craft for the orbiting station personnel with more than 2.3 tons of ”dry” supplies. The package included fuel, medicine, oxygen, food and water requested by the ISS Expedition 17’s crew in order to properly continue their operations. The Progress delivered 4.657 pounds of supplies, which included 772 pounds of propellant, 926 pounds of water, 63 pounds of oxygen and 46 pounds of air.

Yesterday’s delivery was the third after February’s 2.5 metric ton shipment and last April’s 7.5 metric tons.

The craft will remain linked to the station for several months and at a certain point, when it will be filled with trash, it will be discarded to burn in the atmosphere.

The crew is composed of commander Sergei Volkov, flight engineer Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman. Volkov and Kononenko have been conducting their activities on the station for the past five weeks and Reisman has been a resident since March.