The International Space Station Just Lost Another Supply Mission
The loss of a Russian spacecraft is the latest in a series of mishaps resupplying the orbiting lab.
The Progress 62 cargo capsule approached the ISS in July 2016.
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A Russian mission to resupply the International Space Station went awry on Thursday as nearly 5,400 pounds of supplies were lost in an explosion above Siberia.
The Progress 65 spacecraft was launched at 9:51 a.m. EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The craft was destroyed approximately six minutes into the flight, during the third stage of its rocket burn and at an altitude of 190 km (118 miles). Most of the debris burned in the atmosphere, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.