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Video: OA-7 Cygnus freighter arrives at its orbital destination
The International Space Station crew reaches out with the Canadian robotic arm and grabs the free-flying Cygnus OA-7 commercial cargo ship filled with supplies, food and science gear.
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).
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.
Video: Atlas/OA-7 pre-launch news briefing and what’s aboard
Watch the pre-launch news conference held Monday, April 17 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to preview liftoff of the Orbital ATK commercial Cygnus OA-7 cargo ship aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for the International Space Station.
Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with OA-7 Cygnus
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 today for Tuesday's launch of a commercially-operated cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station.