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Videos: Atlas 5 launch replays from OA-7 Cygnus mission
Isolated camera views from various locations around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center show the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifting off Tuesday with the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter bound for the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Cygnus rendezvous and arrival journal and webcast
A logistics-delivery vessel for the International Space Station, launched and operated privately by commercial companies on behalf of NASA, is scheduled to arrive at the lab complex Saturday at 6:05 a.m. EDT (1005 GMT).
Two fresh crew members join space station expedition
Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and rookie flight engineer Jack Fischer streaked into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft Thursday, chased down the International Space Station and glided to a smooth docking to complete a six-hour rendezvous.
VideoLive coverage: Yurchikhin, Fischer reach space station after fast-track rendezvous
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, on his fifth trip into space, and rookie NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, a Colorado native, blasted off aboard a Soyuz booster at 0713 GMT (3:13 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, heading for the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month expedition. The duo docked with the orbiting outpost at 1318 GMT (9:18 a.m. EDT).
Soyuz crew set for Thursday launch to space station
Just 10 days after three space station fliers returned to Earth -- and two days after launch of a station-bound supply ship -- a veteran four-flight cosmonaut and an enthusiastic NASA rookie were cleared for launch Thursday to boost the lab's crew up to five -- one less than usual because of cost cutting by the Russian space agency.
Photos: Cargo run to the space station begins
An unmanned cargo freighter carrying nearly four tons of supplies and science, launched and operated commercially for NASA, blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday atop an Atlas 5 rocket bound for the International Space Station.
Video: Post-launch news conference for Atlas/OA-7
A recap of the successful start to Orbital ATK's OA-7 resupply mission to the International Space Station is given in this post-launch news conference held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center following the Atlas 5 rocket's delivery of the Cygnus cargo ship into space.
Atlas 5 rocket successfully boosts Cygnus cargo ship on trek to space station
Loaded with supplies to keep the International Space Station's crew fed, clothed and busy with new science projects, a Cygnus cargo vessel sped into orbit today atop an Atlas 5 rocket.
Video: Tribute to NASA’s retiring George Diller
NASA launch commentator George Diller called the Atlas 5 with Cygnus, his final liftoff as the voice of launch control before retirement next month. He has worked at the Kennedy Space Center for nearly four decades and served as the commentator for such memorable launches as Hubble, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers and the final space shuttle mission.
Video: Atlas takes flight with Cygnus
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship on the OA-7 mission to the International Space Station.