俄罗斯向国际空间站发射货运火箭

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."

一枚联盟号火箭运载进步57号货运飞船星期二从拜科努尔航天中心升空，预计今天晚些时候和国际空间站对接。

星期二，一艘为国际空间站运送补给和设备的无人商业火箭从美国维吉尼亚州大西洋海岸外的瓦勒普斯岛升空几秒钟后爆炸。

负责向国际空间站运输补给的美国政府的承包商轨道科学公司表示，在星期二的爆炸原因确定之前，不会再发射安塔瑞斯火箭。

爆炸事件没有造成地面人员受伤。美国国家航空航天局表示，国际空间站的成员没有食品或者其他关键给养用尽的危险。