Russia has unmanned flight of the international space station Sunday to deliver his first since an August have a half size crew on the orbital outpost and Moscow's role as the sole provider of space concerns.The progress ship blown up from the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan as scheduled at 6: 11 am EDT, deliveries to project by 16 Nations, the currently about 240 miles above the Earth orbiting station, a $100 billion.
"The vehicle is reported that through the book to go, it is on the money," NASA said on its website TV www.nasa.gov.
It showed the freighter take under bright sunshine in the Kazakh steppe, with almost 3 tons of food, fuel and accessories including oxygen and clothing and even iPads.
It is expected to dock Wednesday at the station, which is as large as a five-room house and took to build the United States more than 10 years. It is used to search for and test new technologies in the unique environment of weightlessness.
All Russian space which leave a flights after the failure of progress, half size, three members were on the space station crew, consisting of U.S. station commander Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Volkov, and Japan's Satoshi Furukawa.
A new team is expected that the outpost to fly on 14 November, coming two days later.
Since the retirement of the U.S. ships, this summer, Russian Soyuz capsules the only ships are flight crews to the station, a service which currently cost NASA about $350 million per year.
NASA 850 million this year is seeking American private company, space taxi, with the aim of Russia's monopoly on the station crew ferry flights until end of 2016 break help develop.
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