Russian Rocket Headed to International Space Station Successfully Launches
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NASA TV(NEW YORK) — An unmanned Russian rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched from Kazakhstan overnight.
The ISS Progress 60, which is carrying over three tons of food, fuel and supplies, lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome Friday at 12:55 a.m. EDT, according to NASA.
The spacecraft will orbit the Earth until Sunday, NASA says, when it is expected to dock with the space station at 3:13 a.m.
Friday’s successful lift-off comes less than a week after an unmanned SpaceX rocket, which was also carrying supplies to the International Space Station, exploded shortly after taking off.
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