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International Space Station Gets Emergency Food

2004-12-26 21:08:12 CRIENGLISH.com

An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship on a vital supply mission docked overnight on Saturday at the international space station.

It carried food for the two-member US-Russian crew, who have been forced to ration their dwindling supplies.

The spaceship lifted off on Friday from the remote Baikonur cosmodrome in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

It carries about 2.5 tons of food, water, fuel and research equipment for Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and US astronaut Leroy Chiao. They are in their third month on the station.

Russian and American space officials were alarmed earlier this month to learn that the two had gone through so much food on the station.

A Russian Space Agency official said it was likely there was turkey - in some form - included in the delivery.

The two astronauts greet to people around the world before giving a funny simultaneous message while somersaulting in the weightless space station.

"...Wish you Merry Christmas...."

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