The unmanned rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday.
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Sen-A series of European Space Agency (ESA) videos show astronaut Tim Peake training for his mission to the global Space Station (ISS) which is due to begin in December.
While such missions are usually routine, past spacecraft resupply attempts have failed, making this one especially crucial. Researchers working on the space station share a common goal of utilizing its orbital facility for the benefit of civilization.
The problem was a glitch on the carrier Proton-M rocket, similar to an incident past year when the same model of rocket fell to Earth carrying Russia’s most advanced communications satellite.
Last April, Russian Federation lost another Progress cargo vessel which made it into orbit but was unable to deploy its antennaes and plunged back into the atmosphere and burned up. NASA reassurances aside, The Verge reports that NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was very relieved to see the cargo arrive safely this time, tweeting “Third time’s the charm!” It had crew clothing, spacewalk hardware, propellant, oxygen and water, among other supplies.
Although three resupply missions in the last eight months have experienced catastrophic failure on launch, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier commends the global Space Station crew for doing an excellent job of balancing their edible supplies.
NASA researchers on board the global Space Station (ISS) have spent years developing new technologies in space in order to benefit the lives of people living on Earth. “We’re in good shape from a food standpoint”.
According to NASA, there were enough supplies on the ISS for the crew to last until October.
The space station, which has been continuously occupied since November 2000, has been visited by more than 200 people and a variety of global and commercial spacecraft.
The space station is around two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth and circles the entire planet every ninety minutes.
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They will conduct a number of scientific experiments including controlling robots remotely. The station measures 357 feet from end to end and is larger than a six-bedroom house.
