Supply Ship Headed for ISS

The unmanned Russian spaceship — carrying food, fuel and supplies — launched from Kazakhstan Wednesday.

A Soyuz rocket at dawn on launch site 1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Thursday, March 14, 2019.
A Soyuz rocket at dawn on launch site 1 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian spaceship carrying supplies for the International Space Station has launched from Russia's space complex in Kazakhstan.

The Progress 73 cargo ship blasted off atop a Soyuz rocket at 1210 GMT Wednesday. It is to dock with the ISS about 3 ½ hours later after two orbits.

The Progress is carrying about three tons (2.7 metric tons) of food, fuel and supplies to the space station, which currently has six astronauts aboard.

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