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The Orbital ATK Cygnus vehicle is slated to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than November 11, 2017 from Wallops Flight Facility. The Cygnus spacecraft will carry a dozen ISS National Laboratory payloads to conduct research across a variety of areas aimed at improving life on Earth.
Mission: Orbital ATK CRS-8
Launch date: Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 7:19 a.m. EDT
Location: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
The Orbital ATK Cygnus vehicle is slated to launch to the ISS no earlier than November 11, 2017 carrying a dozen ISS National Laboratory payloads aimed at improving life on Earth.
Here are the mission specifics for Orbital ATK CRS-8 including launch time, vehicle weight and the investigations being delivered to the International Space Station.
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The six astronauts onboard will be studying everything from plant growth in microgravity to why some bacteria lose their ability to cause disease when grown in space.
View photos from the Orbital ATK CRS-8 mission here.
A dozen ISS National Lab research payloads are heading to space on the Orbital ATK CRS-8 mission. These payloads range from student investigations to CubeSats
A set of STaARS experiments will be conducted in a new facility on the ISS, the NEXUS Lab, which was designed and built by SpacePharma.
