NASA cargo launches aboard Orbital ATK Cygnus module on commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.
The Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module is carried atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orbital ATK’s seventh commercial resupply services mission, CRS-7, will deliver 7,600 pounds of supplies, equipment and scientific research materials to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 11:11 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph