MOSCOW - An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked Wednesday at the international space station carrying two tons of supplies including holiday gifts, officials said.
The Progress M-62 brought honey, sweets, fruits and vegetables, drinking water, fuel, equipment, oxygen and Christmas and New Year's gifts for the crew -- U.S. astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, Russia's Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said.
Gifts are traditionally given in Russia on New Year's Day. Russians celebrate Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7.
The gifts carried to the space station included birthday presents for Malenchenko, who turned 46 on Saturday, Lyndin said. Malenchenko's wife, Yekaterina, sent him a collection of his favorite music and movies.
The ITAR-Tass news agency reported that the cargo ship also delivered Russian-tailored trousers, which it said were made of a new, thinner fabric more comfortable than the U.S.-made clothing used by the crew. If the crew like the pants, they could become standard.
The ship lifted off Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
