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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. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply
mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital
Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA.
Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other
hardware to the space station.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls |