There’s room for parking, so NASA is moving forward with a resupply run to the International Space Station.
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft is set to launch atop an Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia’s Eastern Shore at 6:01 p.m. Tuesday. Video of the launch can be seen on NASA TV.
It’s the 16th contracted cargo mission for the Cygnus spacecraft, this one named after astronaut Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American to fly in space as a member of STS 51-C in 1985 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Onizuka died on his next mission though along with six crewmates during the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy in 1986.
