At 1:20 p.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Chris Williams, with help from NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, captured Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft utilizing the Worldwide Area Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.
NASA’s Mission Management Middle on the company’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston will use Canadarm2 to place the spacecraft for set up, then information Cygnus XL to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port. NASA won’t present dwell protection of the spacecraft’s set up.
NASA’s Northrop Grumman Business Resupply Companies 24 mission launched at 7:41 a.m. on April 11 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida, carrying greater than 11,000 kilos of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory.
Northrop Grumman named the spacecraft the S.S. Steven R. Nagel in honor of the previous NASA astronaut who flew 4 area shuttle missions, logging greater than 720 hours in area.
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