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Readiness confirmed for Thursday’s Atlas 5 cargo launch to space station

December 1, 2015 Justin Ray

Mission managers Tuesday granted approval to proceed with Wednesday’s rollout of the Atlas 5 rocket and Thursday’s launch to deliver the commercial Cygnus cargo ship into orbit to resupply the International Space Station.

Atlas 5/Cygnus OA-4 launch timeline

November 30, 2015 Justin Ray

Follow the Atlas 5 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad with the Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship for the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for Thursday at 5:55 p.m. EST (2255 GMT).

International Space Station and crew awaiting Atlas 5 launch of Cygnus

November 29, 2015 Justin Ray

Lending a helping hand to resume the stalled U.S. supply chain to the International Space Station, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will send a commercial Cygnus cargo craft in pursuit of the outpost Thursday.

International Space Station cargo ship hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket

November 20, 2015 Justin Ray

Loaded with over 7,300 pounds of goods for the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket booster Friday for launch Dec. 3.

Explained: Why Atlas 5 will have longer windows for station flights

November 18, 2015 Justin Ray

Expanding a single instant in time to 30 minutes, the upcoming Atlas 5 rockets with Cygnus cargo-delivery freighters bound for the International Space Station will have an unprecedented opportunity available to launch each day.

Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs

November 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions.

Station-bound cargo ship shown to press before launch

November 14, 2015 Justin Ray

The Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, named the SS Deke Slayton II, is packed up and poised for launch to the International Space Station.

Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with Cygnus

November 11, 2015 Justin Ray

United Launch Alliance has begun stacking its first Atlas 5 rocket to fly in service to the International Space Station, a commercial mission to send supplies to the orbiting complex.

Kelly, Lindgren set for second spacewalk

November 5, 2015 William Harwood

Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are gearing up for their second spacewalk in nine days Friday, a planned six-and-a-half-hour excursion to reconfigure the ammonia cooling system used by one of the lab’s sets of solar arrays.

NASA marks 15 years of space station occupation

November 2, 2015 William Harwood

The International Space Station’s first three-man crew moved in on Nov. 2, 2000, 15 years ago Monday, the first of 45 expeditions to date that have logged a decade and a half of continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit.