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MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian unmanned cargo ship was successfully launched on Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station.
The Progress MS-16 freighter took off as scheduled at 9.45am (4.45am GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan and reached a designated orbit en route to the station.
It is carrying water, thruster and other supplies and is expected to dock at the space outpost on Wednesday.
The space outpost is now operated by NASA’s Kate Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker; Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi; and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos.
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