An
Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from
Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014,
Wallops Island, VA.
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Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo
resupply mission to the International Space Station.
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The Orbital-1
mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to
the space station for NASA.
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Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew
provisions, spare parts and other hardware to the space station.
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Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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