Astronauts of International Space Station have captured the photographs of burning spacecraft. Cygnus spacecraft, a private cargo ship that delivered supplies to ISS, burned up over the Pacific Ocean. Before the destruction, it delivered clothing, food, spare parts, equipment, scientific experiments, and some other crew supplies to the six astronauts.

After unloading the supplies, the spacecraft was reloaded by astronauts with garbage. It burnt up in Earth's atmosphere and broke.

The ISS had released the cargo ship last week which burned up in the sky east of New Zealand. Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suarev and European Space Agency astronaut Andrew Gerst photographed the wonderful images of the ship. Among the eight cargo supply missions by Orbital Sciences, Cygnus spacecraft was the second. The third of eight spacecrafts will be deployed in October from Virginia. Cygnus by Orbital Sciences is part of a $1.9 billion contract between NASA and the company that runs to the end of 2016.

Space station is also getting supplies from another private company, SpaceX. The company has $1.6 billion contract with NASA. SpaceX's Dragon capsules and Falcon 9 will complete a total of 12 supplies to International Space Station.

Frank Culbertson, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Orbital Sciences Advanced Programs Group, considered second supply mission to International Space Station a success. He said, "We are very pleased with the results of this mission. Our team is proud to be providing essential supplies to the ISS crew so they can carry out their vital work in space".

The third mission of the company will deliver a supply of 2,290 kg of supplies to the space station.

SSC Satellite Management Services and Universal Space Network successfully provided ground networking support for Orbital Sciences' second mission.