Media Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/Kim Shiflett
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft is set to lift off December 3 at 5:55 p.m., carrying more than 7,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory to support dozens of approximately 250 science and research investigations that will occur during Expeditions 45 and 46.
Mission: Orbital ATK CRS-4
Launch date: Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 4:44 p.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
These ISS National Lab-sponsored payloads represent commercial and academic research and ultimately intended to benefit life on Earth.
Milliken & Co. hopes for discoveries capable of enhancing materials and clothing used by fire fighters, electrical workers and those in defense industries who are in harm's way.
The mission patch developed by actor, creator, and producer Seth Green, represents all payloads intended for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory in calendar year 2015.
Recently, from onboard the ISS, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor was videoed reading an excerpt from the book Luciana: Braving the Deep as part of Story Time From Space.
