Progress launches to ISS
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 5:54 AM ET (0954 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Progress spacecraft late Wednesday carrying cargo for the International Space Station. The Soyuz lifted off at 3:50 pm EDT (1950 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and placed the Progress M-65 spacecraft into orbit nine minutes later. The Progress is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Friday. The Progress is carrying two and a half tons of food, water, propellant, and other supplies for the station and its three-man crew.
A Soyuz rocket launched a Progress spacecraft late Wednesday carrying cargo for the International Space Station. The Soyuz lifted off at 3:50 pm EDT (1950 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and placed the Progress M-65 spacecraft into orbit nine minutes later. The Progress is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Friday. The Progress is carrying two and a half tons of food, water, propellant, and other supplies for the station and its three-man crew.
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