It was just a few days ago that SpaceX shot one of its Dragon cargo ships into space, and it was packed with supplies for the crew of the International Space Station. Now, Russia has done the same with its Progress 73 cargo vessel, only this time it arrived much more rapidly.
The spacecraft, which was sent skyward atop a Russian Soyuz rocket, completed two orbits of Earth as it sped towards its destination and made its way from Earth to the space station in just over three hours, which is a breakneck pace.
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Russia just completed a particularly speedy resupply run to the International Space Station originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 19:06:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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