Last old-modelled Russian cargo spaceship undocks from ISS

MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The last Russian cargo spacecraft with the outdated analogue control system, Progress M-67, has successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday and began its autonomous flight, said a spokesman for the Mission Control Center outside Moscow.

The spacecraft loaded with the garbage collected from the ISS undocked from the Zvezda service module at about 11:25 Moscow time(0725GMT), said Valery Lyndin.

The spacecraft will then temporarily serve as an orbital laboratory for one week to conduct a series of geophysical experiments under the Plasma-Progress program, before plunging into a "spaceship cemetery" in the southern Pacific, he added.