A Russian unmanned freight docked successfully at the International Space Station, where the Russian-American crew waited anxiously after the failure of two previous missions of supply.
The Progress M-28M, which carries 2.5 metric tons of fuel, oxygen, water, food and other materials, blasted off Friday from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan. The Russian Mission Control said on Sunday that he had engaged successfully in automatic mode at the orbital outpost.
The previous launch of a Progress on last April ended in failure, and the week of last miscarried one US supply mission when the rocket exploded SpaceX Falcon9 shortly after takeoff.
The setbacks followed another failure last October of a Antares rocket company Orbital Sciences, which also carried goods to the station NASA.
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