Supplies Are Sent to Hungry Astronauts
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian cargo ship blasted off early to carry badly needed food and equipment to the International Space Station.
The Progress M-51 took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with about 2 1/2 tons of food, fuel and research equipment for cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and astronaut Leroy Chiao, Itar-Tass and Interfax news agencies said.
Sharipov and Chiao, in their second month at the station, had enough food left for only seven to 14 days beyond Dec. 25 and had been ordered to cut back on meals.
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