Russia launches cargo spaceship to ISS
2008-05-14 21:23:17 GMT 2008-05-15 05:23:17 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English
|
|
MOSCOW, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia launched a cargo spacecraft on Thursday to the International Space Station atop a carrier rocket.
The Progress M-14 spaceship is to deliver some 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel, equipment and gifts from the ISS crews' families.
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Garrett E. Reisman are working on the space station.
The spacecraft is to dock to the station at 01:37 Moscow time on Saturday (1737 GMT), Itar-Tass news agency cited sources in the Russian Space Agency.
The Progress spacecraft is an unmanned version of the Soyuz spacecraft. It is expected to be filled with waste and burst during its way back to Earth after undocking.
The Progress is one of two cargo types of spacecraft supplying the ISS. The other is the European Space Agency's automatic transfer vehicle (ATV), the Jules Verne.
More News
- NASA devises nanotech-based biosensor to detect biohazards
- Red-hot Kiwi companies selected for int'l digital media think tank
- Red dwarf star releases giant burst of light
- 1st time: extinct animal DNA reborn in live animal
- Scientists puzzled by foreshock-less SW China earthquake
- DNA database to be built to identify dead in quake
- Most telecom services resume in quake-hit areas
- NASA gives "go" for space shuttle launch on May 31
- British MPs vote for hybrid human-animal embryos creation
- Warning! Reactive nitrogen accumulating in environment
- U.S., China space debris still orbiting Earth
- World Congress on Information Technology to be held in Canada in 2012
- Chinese fern used to clean up heavy metal-polluted soil
- Trained dogs offer sniff of a chance for quake survivors
- Agriculture ministry: China quake damages crops