Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS

A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship, launched early Thursday, docks with the International Space Station automatically.

A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked on Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported.

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The cargo ship, launched early Thursday, docked with the ISS automatically, the report added.

The station's three-man crew, Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and American Garrett Reisman, were expected to open the hatch to the cargo ship within a couple of hours.

Progress is delivering a three-tonne cargo of combustible energy materials, food, medicine, oxygen and water. These last were needed after a problem with static discharge was identified as coming from solar panels used to run the computers which control oxygen and water supplies on the ISS.