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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.
Launch replays from Tuesday’s Atlas 5 flight with Cygnus
Relive Tuesday night's spectactular liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Cygnus cargo ship with this series of replays.
Atlas 5/Cygnus NASA TV broadcast
The NASA TV broadcast of the launch of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship bound for the International Space Station on March 22, 2016. (Membership Required)
Atlas 5/Cygnus post-launch press conference
Watch the post-launch press conference held at the Kennedy Space Center following the successful launch of an Atlas 5 carrying Orbital ATK's Cygnus AO-6 cargo craft, which is headed to the International Space Station.
2nd Cygnus ship in three months rockets to orbit aboard Atlas 5
An Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched another Cygnus cargo freighter for Orbital ATK Tuesday night, fulfilling the booster's role of reestablishing America's resupply link to the International Space Station.