The Progress M-64/29P cargo ship aboard a Russian Soyuz-U carrier rocket has successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

"Launch of the Soyuz carrier rocket and Progress M-64 transport ship from Baikonur was at 00:23 MST. The separation of transport ship from the booster is expected at 00:31 MST" - Cosmodrome Spokesperson.

The cargo ship is scheduled to deliver to the ISS, on Saturday May 17, at 1:37 MST, supplies and fresh food for the Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Garrett Reysmana.
The ship also carries snails for low gravity experiments on the regeneration.

Progress M-64 on May 11,2008...

http://www.energia.ru/rus/iss/iss17/progress-m-64/im/photo_05-11-06.jpg

The ship also carries snails for low gravity experiments on the regeneration.
How odd.

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How odd.

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nothing odd about it, it will study tissue regeneration using these snails, there is 90 snails by the way

In fact the way snails' tissue regenerate in space will allow someday scientists to develop a regeneration for lost bone mass in astronauts

By the way Progress 25 mission in 2007 carried snails as well...so the experiment is proving worthwile

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070512_exp15_prog25_launch.html

that was May 11, 2007 by the way...here is the ship in all its beauty

http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070514_exp15_prog25ln_02.jpg

What happened to those snails? Eaten? :) Resupply!

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What happened to those snails? Eaten? :) Resupply!

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tested possible scenarious on them, I am sure some of them are dead, some are disposed off, and some have given positive results. Scenarious like pressuization, temperature, perhaps introduction of artificial gravity...

I remeber the good ol' days of the Saturn 5...saw it liftoff with one of the Apollo missions on it. Really a loud groundshaking beast!

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I remeber the good ol' days of the Saturn 5...saw it liftoff with one of the Apollo missions on it. Really a loud groundshaking beast!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/saturn5_apollo11.gif

what does that American piece of hardware has to do with this mission?

Nothing actually but your posting the image of the Progress made me reflect back to when I went to view the liftoffs. Have you been to a liftoff yet or aren't visitors allowed to visit the Cosmodrome?

Nothing actually but your posting the image of the Progress made me reflect back to when I went to view the liftoffs. Have you been to a liftoff yet or aren't visitors allowed to visit the Cosmodrome?

well I am a citizen of both countries...and soon I will have some very good connections within Russia :cool: But yes it will take me some more connections to be accepted into cosmodrome launch...

I do hope that you will be able to watch a liftoff, it is very heart pounding and you vibrate all over as it rises upwards. Cool stuff to see. ;)

I do hope that you will be able to watch a liftoff, it is very heart pounding and you vibrate all over as it rises upwards. Cool stuff to see. ;)

how far were you when you watched it? when did you watch it? can you tell me more about it? have pictures?

The area was about 5 miles or so away from the launch pad, to the west of it actually. There were always a very large crowd on hand to watch them fly. It took a second or two before the sound reached us so we always saw the engines ignition first, that was a really interesting sight especially when the early morning Saturn 5 lifted off, really lit up the entire Cape Canaveral area. Then your body would feel the ground shake and the vibrations hit your chest . It was a really startling thing to experiance first hand. I don't recall which missions I went to watch but I saw a few of them. I had images but my Ex destroyed them or took them away with her, I really don't know why she did that.

The unmanned Progress M-64/29P cargo ship has successfully docked with the international space station.
The cargo ship was packed with more than 2 tons of supplies and scientific experiments.

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Credit NASA TV