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Cargo Stowed in Cygnus

Equipment and supplies have been loaded aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft.
Equipment and supplies have been loaded aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Oct. 20, 2015 – Equipment and supplies have been loaded aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fourth commercial resupply services mission will be the first flight of the enhanced variant of the Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft, capable of delivering more than 7,700 pounds of essential crew supplies, equipment and scientific experiments to the station. The Cygnus will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis