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A Northrop Grumman cargo ship carrying more than 8,200 pounds of science and research investigations, supplies, and hardware is set to arrive at the International Space Station<\/a> early this morning. The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft launched at 5:56 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 10 on an Antares rocket from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<\/p>\n NASA Television coverage of capture has begun. Watch live on the NASA app<\/a> or at www.nasa.gov\/live<\/a>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n When Cygnus arrives, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur<\/a> will use the space station\u2019s robotic Canadarm2 to capture it while ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet<\/a> monitors telemetry during rendezvous, capture, and installation on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module.<\/p>\n Northrop Grumman named the Cygnus spacecraft for this resupply mission in honor of former NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka<\/a>, who was the first Asian American astronaut. Onizuka was hired in 1978 in the first class of diverse astronauts, and his first spaceflight was aboard space shuttle Discovery in January 1985 for STS-51-C. He lost his life aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.<\/p>\n Learn more about space station activities by following the space station blog<\/a>, @space_station<\/a> and @ISS_Research<\/a> on Twitter as well as the ISS Facebook<\/a> and ISS Instagram<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Northrop Grumman cargo ship carrying more than 8,200 pounds of science and research investigations, supplies, and hardware is set to arrive at the International Space Station early this morning. The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft launched at 5:56 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 10 on an Antares rocket from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA Television \u2026 Continue reading