Progress launched to ISS
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 7:05 AM ET (1105 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a modernized Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station Thursday morning. The Soyuz lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:14 pm EDT Wednesday (0114 GMT Thursday) and placed the Progress M-03M (designated Progress 35 by NASA). The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 9:41 pm EDT Saturday (0141 GMT Sunday). On board the spacecraft are two and a half tons of food, water, propellant, and other supplies for the station's six-person crew.
A Soyuz rocket launched a modernized Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station Thursday morning. The Soyuz lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:14 pm EDT Wednesday (0114 GMT Thursday) and placed the Progress M-03M (designated Progress 35 by NASA). The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 9:41 pm EDT Saturday (0141 GMT Sunday). On board the spacecraft are two and a half tons of food, water, propellant, and other supplies for the station's six-person crew.
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