The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition there were cheers and the clinking of champagne glasses when two Canadian space cameras blasted off for the International Space Station on Monday aboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says the cameras -- one shoots photos, the other streams video -- are expected to begin transmitting high-definition images of the Earth early next year. The two UrtheCast cameras were part of the three tonnes of food, fuel and supplies that will be delivered to the space station in about four days. The Russian Progress supply ship took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cameras will be installed on the Zvezda service module, the Russian segment of the space station, during two space walks in mid-December. UrtheCast president, Wade Larson, who was in Kazakhstan, told a launch party at Vancouver's Telus World of Science the blast-off was "absolutely extraordinary." He added, "It lit up like daylight and you can feel the vibrations in your gut." Larry Reeves, UrtheCast's senior systems engineer, said the high-resolution video camera will take images of an area measuring three by five kilometres.