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Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station


Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft laden with 5,300 pounds of fuel and supplies blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, riding a Soyuz rocket smoothly into orbit on the first of two resupply launches heading for the International Space Station in the next two days. The Progress MS-03 supply ship, known as Progress 64P in the space station’s visiting vehicle manifest, launched at 2141:45 GMT (5:41:45 p.m. EDT) Saturday aboard a Soyuz-U rocket, soaring east-northeast from the Kazakh spaceport in line with the space station’s flight path. A clear predawn sky at Baikonur afforded views of the Soyuz booster climbing into the stratosphere, then releasing four liquid-fueled strap-on first stage boosters at an altitude of 30 miles, or about 50 kilometers.   More



(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 17)

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