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(CNN) -- An unmanned Russian Progress cargo ship docked with the International Space Station on Tuesday, giving the three station residents an extra fuel supply and a place to discard their refuse.

The crew of one astronaut and two cosmonauts will stow trash in the resupply vessel, which also contains residual fuel should it be necessary for maneuvers before the ship undocks next month.

The docking was the second for the Progress, which blasted into orbit from Kazakhstan in mid-November. It was unloaded and then placed into a parking orbit, allowing the space shuttle Endeavour to dock to the station earlier this month.

Among the supplies in both the Progress and the shuttle: holiday gifts for the station crew, which celebrated Christmas by talking to their families, eating a dinner of re-hydrated turkey and looking out the window at the Earth below.

Now, more than three weeks later, space station cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko guided the Progress to the station using a remote joystick controller.

The 7.5 ton vessel should remain attached to the $100 billion orbiting outpost until the space shuttle Atlantis arrives in January.

Another Progress supply ship is scheduled to launch around February 10.

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