A Russian rocket carrying an unmanned cargo ship blasted off for the
International Space Station early Sunday July 17,2016 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said.
The Soyuz rocket
carrying the Progress MS-03 ship was launched on schedule at 00:41
Moscow time (21:41 GMT Saturday) and began a two-day journey to the ISS,
the Roscosmos space agency said on its website.
The
ship is carrying more than 2.4 tonnes of fuel, air, oxygen, food and
equipment for the crew on the International Space laboratory(ISS)
It is due to dock at 03:22 Moscow time (00:22 GMT) on Tuesday July 19,2016
The ISS is currently manned by Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Takuya Onishi of the Japanese space agency, Jeff Williams of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexey Ovchinin and Anatoly Ivanishin.
It is due to dock at 03:22 Moscow time (00:22 GMT) on Tuesday July 19,2016
The ISS is currently manned by Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Takuya Onishi of the Japanese space agency, Jeff Williams of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexey Ovchinin and Anatoly Ivanishin.
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