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Cygnus Orbital ATK OA-6 Liftoff

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying an Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply spacecraft on a commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 11:05 p.m. Eastern Time on March 22, 2016. The Cygnus, named S.S. Rick Husband, delivered the second generation of a portable onboard printer to demonstrate 3-D printing, an instrument for first space-based observations of the chemical composition of meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere and an experiment to study how fires burn in microgravity in addition to other supplies and experiments.

 

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Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Kevin O'Connell

Image Number: KSC-20160322-PH_AWG0004_0033

Date: March 22, 2016

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