Mission: Orbital ATK CRS-6
Launch date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 11:05 p.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Orbital ATK CRS-6
Launch Resources
- Press Release
Research Payloads Arrive at the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory
The Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft “S.S. Rick Husband” and a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket are poised to launch March 23rd on a mission carrying close to 7,500 pounds of experiments and equipment to the ISS.
- Video
ISS U.S. National Lab Payloads on Orbital ATK-6
The ISS is not only a unique platform to conduct innovative research, it is also a facility capable of enabling new business models for low-Earth orbit.
- Article
Removing Gravity From the Manufacturing Equation
What if you could design and manufacture objects intended for space actually in space, rather than designing them to withstand a rocket launch first to get there?
- Video
Made In Space and CASIS: Launch World's First 3D Printer to Space
Made in Space joins forces with the ISS National Lab and NASA to pave the way to 3D printing in space.
- Article
The New Gold Rush: 3D Printing in Micro-G
Until a year ago, commercially printing objects in space was the stuff of science fiction. Not anymore. This March marked one year since the Additive Manufacturing Facility was launched as a permanent “machine shop” on the ISS.
- Article
On the Frontier of Space: Looking Outward to Better Understand the Universe Around Us
The ISS National Lab is an outpost on the frontier of space. It is a point from which we can peer out into the undiscovered vastness of the universe to discover who we are, how we got here, and where we are going.
- Article
Learn about the Official 2016 National Lab Mission Patch
The mission patch developed by Marvel represents all payloads intended for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory in calendar year 2016.
