MOSCOW, Sept 11 (AFP) Sep 11, 2008 Russian cargo ship Progress M-65 is due to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday after setting off from Kazakhstan early Thursday, the space control center officials said.
The spacecraft was launched "as planned" at a little after midnight local time (2000 GMT) and is due to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, a spokesman quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency said.
Progress is delivering a 2.5-tonne cargo of combustible energy materials, water, oxygen, food and medicine for the three-man ISS crew, as well as equipment for scientific tests.
