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A Soyuz rocket is carried Monday to the launching pad at Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome where it boosted a Progress satellite into space at 5:32 p.m. Moscow time. Progress-30 will dock with the Mir space station Wednesday, delivering food, fuel and other supplies to two Russian cosmonauts and one German astronaut. On Tuesday, a Russian cargo spacecraft broke away from the Mir space station and plunged back to Earth, heading toward the Pacific Ocean. The Progress-29 ferry was expected to burn up in the atmosphere and scatter fragments about 2,000 miles east of New Zealand Tuesday night, the Interfax news agency said. Progress-29 docked with Mir in October.

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