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The International Space Station has been awaiting resupply since a Soyuz rocket carrying three people
Cloudy weather and rain fed back to the aircrafts at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
The 4:23 am (0923 GMT) launch of the Cygnus supply aboard capsule to Northrop Grumman Antares rocket will mark the first such trip since a Soyuz rocket carrying three people failed last month.
It will be swiftly followed by a Russian Progress supply ship, scheduled to launch November 17 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Arrival of the unmanned Cygnus, carrying several tones of supplies and science experiments, is planned for early Sunday at around 4:30 am (0930 GMT), followed by NASA 's Russian Progress ship.
Three astronauts-one German, one Russian and one American-are currently living at the space station, which has been continually inhabited since 2000.
A Soyuz rocket carrying three people failed on October 11 just minutes after blast-off-the-first such incident in the history of post-Soviet space travel.
The astronauts on board were not hurt. Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The next Soyuz launch, with three more astronauts on board-one Russian, one Canadian and one American-is planned for December 3.
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