Tag: Alan Poindexter
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Cygnus cargo craft snared by station’s robot arm
This view from a camera on the robot arm’s end effector shows the aft end of the Cygnus supply ship during the final stages Sunday’s rendezvous. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The International Space Station received more than 2.5 tons of fresh supplies and experiments Sunday with the arrival of a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel after…
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Live coverage: Cygnus supply ship captured by space station robot arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Antares rocket from Virginia with Orbital ATK’s sixth operational Cygnus resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.