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Video: Space station’s robot arm captures Dragon cargo ship
The commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo-delivery craft with the experimental BEAM module -- the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module -- arrives at the International Space Station two days after launching from Cape Canaveral.
Video: Press conference following Falcon launch and landing
NASA and SpaceX hold the post-launch and -landing press conference from Kennedy Space Center on April 8 after the successful flight of the Falcon 9 rocket
Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff
Replays of the Falcon 9 launch of the eighth resupply mission to the International Space Station from various cameras around Cape Canaveral.
VideoUnited Launch Alliance narrowing lists of suspects in rocket anomaly
The detective work into the Atlas 5 rocket's first stage performance trouble during the Cygnus cargo ship launch a week ago has implicated the fuel system as the likely culprit for using up the liquid oxygen supply too quickly.
Photos: Cygnus goes from Cape Canaveral to the space station
This collection of official NASA photographs captures the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rolling to the pad on Monday, successfully blasting off Tuesday and the Cygnus freighter arriving at the International Space Station on Saturday morning.
Traveling Cygnus pulls into port at International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used the robotic arm to snare a commercial cargo ship and bring it aboard this morning while traveling at five miles per second.
Video: Cygnus freighter arrives at orbital destination
The International Space Station crew reaches out with the Canadian robotic arm and grabs the Cygnus OA-6 commercial cargo ship filled with 7,485 pounds of supplies, food and science gear.
Live coverage: Cygnus cargo ship arrives at International Space Station
The commercial Cygnus freighter carrying over 7,000 pounds of food, supplies and science experiments completed a flawless rendezvous with the International Space Station on Saturday morning. It was captured by the robotic arm at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT).
Videos: Preparing Atlas 5 and Cygnus for trip to space station
These narrated videos show the pre-launch preparations that readied the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and the Orbital ATK Cygnus commercial cargo-delivery spacecraft for flight and rolling to Complex 41 for liftoff to the International Space Station.
Atlas 5 forced to improvise during Tuesday’s climb to orbit
The Centaur upper stage launching the Cygnus space freighter Tuesday persevered through a velocity shortfall from the first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket, improvising with a longer firing to reach the correct orbit.