Cygnus Installed on Station, Crew Begins Cargo Ops
Northrop Grumman?s Cygnus spacecraft installation at the International Space Station is now complete. Cygnus, carrying over 8,200 pounds of cargo and science experiments, launched atop the company?s Antares rocket at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 1, from NASA?s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At 5:52 a.m., NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, along with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio as backup, captured Cygnus using the station?s Canadarm2 robotic arm. Highlights of space station research facilitated by delivery aboard this Cygnus are: Cygnus will remain at the space station until October before it departs for a destructive re-entry into Earth?s atmosphere.
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