Commercial Resupply Mission to the International Space Station | This Week @NASA
Week of August 4, 2023: A commercial resupply mission heads to the International Space Station, a key piece of hardware for a future Moon mission is on the move, and another spacecraft gets ready to spread its wings in deep space . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft installation at the International Space Station is now complete. Cygnus, carrying over 8,200 pounds of cargo and science experiments, launched atop the company’s Antares rocket at 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At 5:52 a.m., NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, along with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio as backup, captured Cygnus using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
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Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Video Producer: Andre Valentine
Video Editor: Andre Valentine
Narrator: Andre Valentine
Music: Universal Production Music
Duration: 2 minutes, 35 seconds
Release Date: August 4, 2023
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