NASA: JAXA HTV-2 International Space Station - Research Going Strong

Backdropped by a cloud-covered part of Earth, the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV2, approaches the International Space Station.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, launched HTV2 aboard an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 12:37 a.m. EST; Jan. 22, 2011.

HTV2 is the second unpiloted cargo ship launched by JAXA to the station and delivered more than four tons of food and supplies to the space station and its crew members. (NASA)