• In this Feb. 5 photo provided by NASA, an ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. On April 29, NASA and the Russian Space Agency declared a total loss on an unmanned Progress capsule, carrying 3 tons of goods to the station. The spacecraft began tumbling when it reached orbit.It is expected to burn up on re-entry Friday. | AP
    In this Feb. 5 photo provided by NASA, an ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. On April 29, NASA and the Russian Space Agency declared a total loss on an unmanned Progress capsule, carrying 3 tons of goods to the station. The spacecraft began tumbling when it reached orbit.It is expected to burn up on re-entry Friday. | AP

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – An unmanned Russian spacecraft on a failed resupply run to the International Space Station is heading back toward Earth faster than original predictions, with a fiery demise in the atmosphere expected early on Friday, U.S. Air Force tracking data show.

The Russian Progress capsule, loaded with more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies, blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 28.

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