Launched the Progress M-56 cargo ship (ISS mission 21P) from Baikonur, resupplying the International Space Station and delivering an MIT-built SPHERES free-flying test satellite. It docked with the Zvezda module two days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 668th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 24 April 2006, 16:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2006-013
- Launches in 2006
- 14th of 66
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