Photos: Orbital Sciences' 1st Cygnus Spacecraft Flight to Space Station

Cygnus-Antares Launch: The View from Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland

Orbital Sciences

How the Sept. 18, 2013 launch of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station will look from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Cygnus is blasting off atop an Antares rocket from the space agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.) [Read the full story.]

Cygnus-Antares Launch: The View from the Lincoln Memorial

Orbital Sciences

How the Sept. 18, 2013, launch of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station will look from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. (Cygnus is blasting off atop an Antares rocket from the space agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.) [Read the full story.]

Cygnus-Antares Launch: The View from Udvar-Hazy Center Observation Tower

Orbital Sciences

How the Sept. 18, 2013, launch of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station will look from the Udvar-Hazy Center Observation Tower in Chantilly, VA. (Cygnus is blasting off atop an Antares rocket from the space agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.) [Read the full story.]

Cygnus-Antares Launch: The View from Annapolis, MD

Orbital Sciences

How the Sept. 18, 2013, launch of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station will look from Annapolis, MD. (Cygnus is blasting off atop an Antares rocket from the space agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.) [Read the full story.]

Antares on Spaceport Pad

NASA/Patrick Black

Orbital Sciences Corp. rolled out its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Sept. 13, 2013. Antares is scheduled to launch Cygnus on its maiden flight to the International Space Station on Sept. 18.

Antares and Cygnus at Launch Pad

NASA/Brea Reeves

Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft headed to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.

Antares Rolls Out to Spaceport Pad

NASA

Antares rocket and Cygnus Spacecraft made their way to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.

Antares Rocket Rollout

NASA

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., rolled out its Antares rocket and Cygnus Spacecraft to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The Antares is scheduled to launch Cygnus at 11:16 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 17 on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Antares ‘On-Ramp’

NASA

Antares rocket appears ‘On-Ramp’ at Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.

Antares Rocket Rolls Out

Orbital Sciences Corp.

Orbital Sciences Corp. tweeted this photo of the Antares rocket rolling out to the launch pad at NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on Sept. 12, 2013.

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