A cargo ship from Russia has managed to successfully dock at the International Space Station, and it is delivering supplies for its crew of a total of 5 members.

As has been shared by the Russian space agency, the Progress M-04M linked up with the station on Friday, in what is being described as a "smooth automatic docking".

The Russian vessel delivered as much as 2.5 metric tons of fuel, oxygen, food, water and other essential supplies. Also, the cargo ship includes scientific equipment and care packages for the crew members.

The very latest docking marks the first ever time that 2 Russian Soyuz crew capsules and two Progress cargo ships have simultaneously docked at the station, which is currently orbiting nearly 225 miles above the Earth.

As of now, the station is being manned by Americans Timothy J. Creamer and Jeff Williams, Russians Maxim Surayev and Oleg Kotov and Japan's Soichi Noguchi.