cygnus

[sarajoanne]

Cygnus is truly amazing - what a feat

 

[Catastrophe]

Introduction from Wiki:

From Wiki:

"The Cygnus spacecraft is an expendable American cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and now manufactured and launched by Northrop Grumman Space Systems as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program. It is launched by Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket or ULA's Atlas V and is designed to transport supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) following the retirement of the American Space Shuttle. Since August 2000, ISS resupply missions have been regularly flown by the Russian Progress spacecraft, as well as by the European Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle. With the Cygnus spacecraft and the SpaceX Dragon, NASA seeks to increase its partnerships with domestic commercial aviation and aeronautics industry.[2]

Cygnus is the Latinized Greek word for swan and a northern constellation."

 

[Charlotte Bridgestone]

Recently I watched video about it. I started to search video of the most recent Cygnus 's docking to ISS, but in high quality I found only short one but still beautiful:
Cygnus NG-13 docking sequence from ISS