An Orbital
Sciences Corp. Antares
rocket is ready for flight on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops
Flight Facility, Va., liftoff planned for 1:07 p.m. EST on Thursday.
The
Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission
to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital
Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station
for NASA.
Among
the cargo aboard Cygnus set to launch to the space station are
science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware.
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