俄羅斯向國際空間站發射貨運火箭

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 and 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 seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, in the U.S. state of Virginia off the Atlantic coast.

Orbital Sciences Corporation, the company contracted by the U.S. government to send supplies to the Space Station, says it will not launch another Antares rocket until the cause of Tuesday's explosion is determined.

No one on the ground was hurt. The U.S. space agency, NASA, said the International Space Station crew "is in no danger of running out of food or other critical supplies."俄羅斯在美國火箭升空爆炸後幾個小時之後，從哈薩克斯坦成功發射了向國際空間站運送補給的一艘無人飛船。

一枚聯盟號火箭運載進步57號貨運飛船星期二從拜科努爾航天中心升空，預計今天晚些時候和國際空間站對接。

星期二，一艘爲國際空間站運送補給和設備的無人商業火箭從美國維吉尼亞州大西洋海岸外的瓦勒普斯島升空幾秒鐘後爆炸。

負責向國際空間站運輸補給的美國政府的承包商軌道科學公司表示，在星期二的爆炸原因確定之前，不會再發射安塔瑞斯火箭。

爆炸事件沒有造成地面人員受傷。美國國家航空航天局表示，國際空間站的成員沒有食品或者其他關鍵給養用盡的危險。