Russia Launches ISS Cargo Mission After US Rocket Explodes

Russia successfully launched an unmanned rocket with supplies for the International Space Station from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, hours after a catastrophic explosion destroyed a similar mission in the United States. A Soyuz rocket and Progress 57 cargo ship blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The cargo ship is expected to dock with the ISS later in the day. On Tuesday, an unmanned commercial rocket with supplies and equipment for the space station burst into fiery fragments just...

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