Russian Cargo Ship Failure Won't Endanger Space Station Crew, NASA Says

The six astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will be OK despite a Russian cargo ship's failure to make it to orbit Thursday (Dec. 1), NASA officials said. The uncrewed Progress 65 freighter fell back to Earth shortly after liftoff Thursday, apparently doomed by a problem with the third stage of its Soyuz rocket. The spacecraft and its 2.6 tons (2.36 metric tons) of food, equipment and other supplies burned up in the atmosphere over southern Russia, Russian space officials said. But there's no danger that crewmembers of the station's current Expedition 50 will go hungry or thirsty, according to NASA officials. More

(Source: Space.com - Dec 3)