Russia sending resupply rocket to space station

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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Despite Saturday's explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, the Russians will send an unmanned resupply ship to the international space station on Sunday, as scheduled, Russian officials said.

Progress M-47 is to be launched at 1259 GMT (7:59 EST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is controlled from the ground.

There are two astronauts and a cosmonaut currently on board the space station: Astronauts Ken Bowersox and Don Pettit and Russian Soyuz commander Nikolai Budarin. They arrived at the station in November and are scheduled to return to Earth in March.

NASA suspended all U.S. space flights after shuttle Columbia disintegrated, killing all seven astronauts aboard and spreading debris across a wide swath of eastern Texas and western Louisiana. It was 15 minutes away from its scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

CNN Moscow Producer Nastya Anashkina contributed to this report.

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