Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

Northrop Grumman Antares Rocket Launch: CRS-18 Cargo Resupply | NASA

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company's Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launched at 5:32 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 18th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-18 Cygnus spacecraft is named after the first American woman in space, Sally Ride.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Release Date: November 7, 2022

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