Northrop Grumman’s NG-15 Cygnus cargo spacecraft has been sent on its way to the International Space Station after soaring into orbit atop an Antares 230+ rocket.
The autonomous NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed SS Katherine Johnson, is carrying some 3,700 kilograms of crew supplies and experiments for the space station’s seven-person Expedition 64 crew.
Read MoreThe next Russian cargo ship bound for the International Space Station, Progress MS-16, has launched from Kazakhstan with fuel and supplies.
Read MoreHistory has been made! For the first time since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, American astronauts have launched into space in an American spacecraft from American soil, ending a nearly nine-year gap in the United States’ ability to independently launch people to the ISS.
Read MoreThe historic launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was postponed because of weather concerns. This would have been the first human orbital spaceflight from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
Read MoreAfter nearly nine years, NASA is finally on the cusp of regaining its ability to independently launch people into orbit. The Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission is slated to send NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station for a stay of at least a month as early as late May.
Read MoreAfter two scrubbed attempts, Northrop Grumman was finally able to launch its Antares rocket to get the company’s NG-13 Cygnus cargo ship into space and on a path toward the International Space Station.
Read MoreNormalcy is beginning to return to International Space Station operations as the crew of Soyuz MS-11 successfully launched and docked with the orbiting outpost—seven weeks after an in-flight abort thwarted plans of the previous human spaceflight.
Liftoff took place atop a Soyuz-FG rocket at 11:31 UTC Dec. 3, 2018, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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