First Falcon 9 Launch of Grumman Cygnus Cargo Mission to ISS
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6J7EH)
Tomorrow should be the first launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 of the Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft. It delivers about 3000 kilograms of payload. Cygnus is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation but manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. It ...