The S.S. Steven R. Nagel has arrived on the Worldwide House Station.
The second of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to ship provides to the orbiting outpost, the car was captured by the house station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm at 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT) on Monday (April 13).
“Cygnus seize is full,” radioed Chris Williams, a NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer, to Mission Management. “The S.S. Steven Nagel, welcome aboard the ISS!”
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Williams was on the controls of the arm when the spaceship was grappled. Aiding him was fellow NASA ast Jack Hathaway. Flight controllers on the bottom will subsequent take management of the arm to berth the Cygnus on the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity Node 1 for unloading.
Cygnus is also carrying a gut microbiome study and a receiver that could help protect space-based GPS and radar systems by improving our ability to predict space weather.
Launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Saturday (April 11), the S.S. Steven R. Nagel is scheduled to stayed attached ot the space station until October. The flight is Northrop Grumman’s 24th under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-24) contract.
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