Russian Cargo Ship Heads to Space Station
Posted on: Monday, 9 June 2003, 06:00 CDT
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian cargo ship laden with food, oxygen and other supplies for the international space station blasted off Sunday from the Kazakh steppe, Mission Control said.
The Progress M1-10 lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 2:34 p.m. Moscow time (6:34 a.m. EDT), a Mission Control spokesman said.
Russian launches have become the only links to the station since the U.S. shuttle fleet was grounded after the Columbia disintegrated during its return to Earth in February, killing all seven people on board.
The Progress M1-10 - carrying more than 2 tons of fuel, food, water, oxygen and other supplies - is scheduled to dock with the space station Wednesday.
The space station's current inhabitants, astronaut Edward Lu and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, arrived April 28 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.
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