Europe Launches Its First Resupply Ship -- Jules Verne ATV -- To...

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 03/12/2008 - 09:00

Jules Verne, the first of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicles, a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station, was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by an Ariane 5 vehicle this morning.

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