Russian Progress Launch Restores Critical Cargo Lifeline to Space Station

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Blastoff of the Russian Progress 60 resupply ship to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 3, 2015. Credit: Roscosmos

A sigh of relief was heard worldwide with today’s (July 3) successful launch to orbit of the unmanned Progress 60 cargo freighter atop a Soyuz-U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, signifying the restoration of Russia’s critical cargo lifeline to the International Space Station (ISS), some two months after the devastating launch failure of the prior Progress 59 spaceship on April 28.(…)
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Post tags: 1 Year ISS mission, Baikonur Cosmodrome, cargo resupply, CRS-7, ISS, Progress 59, Progress 60, Progress launch, Roscosmos, Russian Space program, Scott Kelly, SpaceX, SpaceX CRS-7

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