A day after an American rocket exploded seconds into takeoff on a mission to the International Space Station, Russia successfully blasted off with its own cargo-carrying rocket on Wednesday without a hitch.

Tuesday’s disastrous attempted launch of the Cygnus unmanned spacecraft from the Orbital Sciences-built Antares rocket raised questions about the future of NASA’s efforts to supply the ISS through deliveries via commercially built rockets.

The Russian supply ship launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan from a Soyuz rocket toward the ISS early Wednesday in a mission similar to that of Cygnus. The Progress 57 spacecraft will perform a six-hour cargo delivery of three tons of supplies — more than the 5,000 pounds Cygnus was set to deliver, and much quicker as well.

Meanwhile, NASA has launched an investigation into the launch failure at their Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The cargo it was carrying included food, equipment, and experiments. NASA said similar cargo missions would continue and nothing on the spacecraft was irreplaceable, but it was an embarrassing failure for the nascent commercial program only years before the first tourists are expect to head up to the ISS.

The space station crew has more than enough food and water, NASA said, and the failed delivery won’t affect them. The launch of Russia’s Progress 57 and a planned U.S. SpaceX Dragon capsule launch in December will further supply their needs well before they run out in March 2015.