Orbital Sciences Corporation
successfully
launched
their
Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station on Jan.
9th. With freezing cold and clear
blue skies as a backdrop the
company sent Cygnus skyward
atop their Antares rocket, which
thundered away from the MidAtlantic Regional Spaceport
launch Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The
mission, Orb-1, marks the first of
eight contracted resupply flights
for Orbital under a $1.9 billion
agreement with NASA.
Photo: AmericaSpace.com/Mike Killian