Nov. 19, 2024: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship, the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, and the Progress 89 resupply ship. The trash-packed Progress 88 cargo craft ended its resupply mission undocking from the International Space Station at 7:53 a.m. EST today after six-months docked to the Poisk module. The Progress 88 descended into Earth’s atmosphere just over three hours later for a fiery, but safe destruction above the South Pacific Ocean. Then at 3:09 p.m. today, the Progress 89 spacecraft's thrusters fired for 5 minutes, 31 seconds, to raise the orbit of the space station to provide an extra margin of distance from a piece of orbital debris from a defunct defense meteorological satellite that broke up in 2015. The Pre-determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) was conducted in coordination with NASA, Roscosmos and the...