Friday 10 September 2010

Space station cargo vessel blasts off


A robotic Russian resupply ship to service the International Space Station successfully launched atop a Soyuz rocket rocket today at 6:22 a.m. EDT (1022 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The freighter is carrying two-and-a-half tons of cargo, food and water for the high-flying laboratory.
Photo credit: Energia