On Sunday NASA (US space agency) and SpaceX (owned by Elon Musk) are scheduled to send a cargo mission including 8,200 pounds (3,719.45 kg) of supplies, scientific experiments, and tools to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft of Northrop Grumman will carry the commercial supplies to the orbiting lab onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Sunday at 11.02 a.m. (ET) presents the launch opportunity. This is Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply mission for NASA.
Among the scientific investigations aboard Cygnus spacecraft are “tests of water recovery technology, a process to produce stem cells in microgravity, studies of the effects of spaceflight on microorganism DNA, liver tissue growth, and live science demonstrations for students”.
Furthermore included in NASA’s ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) program will be two small CubeSats carried by the NG-21. Following the Cygnus docks on August 5, it will be launched from the ISS.
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Named the S.S. Richard “Dick” Scobee, the NG-21 honors the NASA astronaut in command of the tragic STS-51-L space shuttle Challenger.
Challenger exploded soon after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing Scobee and his six crewmates.
Installed on the Earth-facing port on the Unity module of the ISS, the Cygnus will be docked using the robotic arm of the station.
Before leaving in January 2025, the spacecraft will spend roughly six months coupled with the orbiting laboratory.
Currently housed in the orbiting lab are seven people: five from Expedition 71-Oleg Kononenko, Tracy Dyson, Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin and two Starliners with Indian-origin Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
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