Cygnus Installation Underway Live on NASA TV
NASA Television?s live coverage of installation of Northrop Grumman?s Cygnus spacecraft is underway.
At 4:59 a.m. EST, NASA astronaut Loral O?Hara, with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli acting as backup, captured Northrop Grumman?s Cygnus spacecraft using the International Space Station?s Canadarm2 robotic arm. Cygnus is carrying 8,200 pounds of supplies, hardware, and science experiments.
This is Northrop Grumman?s 20th commercial resupply mission to the space station for NASA. The spacecraft is named the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson in honor of the former NASA astronaut.
Cygnus will remain at the space station until May when it will depart the orbiting laboratory at which point it will harmlessly burn up in the Earth?s atmosphere.
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