Baikonur to launch ?Progress M-66? cargo spacecraft
12:05, 10 February 2009
BAIKONUR. February 10. KAZINFORM /Sara Kabikyzy/ Today Baikonur? space-launch complex is to launch ?Soyuz-U? carrier - booster with ?Progress M-66? cargo spacecraft, Kazinform correspondent reports.
According to the press-service of Federal Space Center (FSC) ?Baikonur?, the carrier ? booster ?Soyuz - U? was set at the launch site 31 where final preparations for the take off are carried out today. The take - off of the first cargo spacecraft ?Progress M-66? to the International Space Station is scheduled today, at 11.48, Astana time, February 10, 2009. The cargo spacecraft will deliver fuel, food stuff, water, scientific equipment and consumables.