A Russian cargo spaceship was launched on early Saturday to
carry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) from the
Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to the Mission Control
outside Moscow.
The Progress cargo spaceship will dock with the ISS on May 15 to
supply 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel and equipment, as well as
letters and gifts from families, the Itar-Tass news agency
reported.
The Progress M-60 spacecraft blasted off from the Central Asian
steppe in Kazakhstan at 07:25 AM Moscow time (0325 GMT).
It has entered a planned orbit and will rise to the ISS orbit at
an altitude of about 340 km, the Interfax news agency quote
President of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation Nikolai
Sevastyanov as saying.
The 15th ISS crew includes Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchukhin
and Oleg Kotov, who went aboard the ISS in April 9 and NASA
astronaut Sunita Williams, who arrived there last December.
(Xinhua News Agency May 12, 2007)
