Mission: Orbital ATK CRS-6
Launch date: Wednesday, March 23, 2017 at 11:05 p.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Mission: Orbital ATK CRS-6
Launch date: Wednesday, March 23, 2017 at 11:05 p.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
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.
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