Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007, 10:58 AM ET (1458 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Progress cargo spacecraft early Saturday on a mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:25 pm EDT Friday (0325 GMT Saturday) and placed the Progress M-60 (Progress 25 as designated by NASA) into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft, carrying over 2.5 tons of supplies, is scheduled to dock with the ISS early Tuesday.

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•  SPACE.com article
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•  NASA SpaceFlight.com article
•  RIA Novosti article
•  Xinhua article