An unmanned Ruskies Progress supply dispatch took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome inside Kazakhstan on Wednesday to get a flight to the Global Space Station on Halloween.
The Development M-17M has been loaded with Only two.9 tons of items and equipment. It launched from its stay at home Kazakhstan at 3:Forty-one am EDT and effortlessly accelerated toward their orbit on a trail of fiery exhaust, reports CBS News.
The particular unmanned supply ship was launched into its designed preliminary orbit exactly nine minutes and Fortyfive seconds later, so that it is successfully on track to dock at the aft port of the Russian Zvezda demand module around 9:40 am EDT.
Stop commander Sunita Williams spoke with Their astronauts flight controllers within Houston, saying:
“Good day. Happy Halloween, as well as hopefully our minor trick-or-treat vehicle is on its way. We merely got to see it your window and that’s rather special. Hope you fellas are having a great day.”
NBC News notes that the Progress M-17M, which flew to the International Place Station, is filled with Only two,050 pounds of propellant, 926 lbs of water, 62 lbs of oxygen, and 2,738 pounds of spare parts. There’s no word on whether or not any candy ingrown toenail or other Halloween treats made it on board to help you the six jet pilots currently living about the space station celebrate Halloween.
While life aboard the ISS is definitely busy, this week is particularly so for the station’s crew. Not only are they accepting the actual Russian unmanned orbiter, but its release is just three days as soon as the first commercial unmanned freight delivery ship (SpaceX’s Monster capsule) undocked from the stop.
Crew members onboard the space station will also embark on a space wander on Thursday to mend an ammonia leak in a radiator.
The International Space Station Halloween craft will stay docked in the station until next April.
