Russian Rocket Launched

World | February 2, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

An unmanned Russian cargo rocket, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), has been launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned. The Russians had already made clear that, despite the Columbia space shuttle disaster in the US, they would go ahead with their launch. The Progress M-47 blasted off at 1259 GMT from the Baikonur facility, which Russia leases from the ex-Soviet Central Asian state. The vessel, which is controlled from the ground, is set to bring supplies to the three-man crew aboard the ISS - two Americans and one Russian.

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