Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station | Synopsis

Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station

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Loaded with 2. 9 tons of supplies and equipment, the Progress M-17M spacecraft climbed away from its launching stand at 3:41 a.m. EDT (1:41 p.m. local time) and accelerated smoothly toward orbit atop a jet of fiery exhaust. Eight minutes and 45 seconds later, the supply ship was released into its planned preliminary orbit, on track for a docking at the aft port of the Russian Zvezda command module around 9:40 a.m. "Good morning," station commander Sunita Williams radioed NASA flight controllers in Houston. "Happy Halloween, and hopefully our little trick-or-treat vehicle is on its way. We just got to see it out the window and that's pretty special. Hope you guys are having a great day." This was the fourth Progress launched this year, the second to follow an abbreviated six-hour rendezvous with the space station.

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Russian supply ship blasts off on 6-hour flight to station

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The unmanned ship, loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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