The Cygnus spacecraft will carry approximately 8,000 pounds of research, supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station during the commercial provider’s upcoming cargo resupply mission for NASA. What’s on board the supply ship The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen launching from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Feb. Along with other Black female pioneers like Mary Jackson, her legacy continues to shape NASA to this day. She passed away last year at the age of 101. Her calculations were instrumental in the first flights to the moon and she had a long and distinguished career, working at NASA for over 30 years. Johnson, whose life and work was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, was a Black woman who started work as a “computer” at NASA in the 1950s, performing complex mathematical calculations by hand and joining the agency at a time when it was dominated by white men. The Cygnus spacecraft being used for this launch has been named in honor of space pioneer Katherine Johnson for Black History Month. Coverage of the ship’s arrival and docking begins at 3 a.m. You can also tune into NASA TV to watch the ISS astronauts capture the supply ship and install it onto the Unity module. The craft will travel to the ISS over the rest of the weekend and is scheduled to arrive at the space station at 4:40 a.m. The launch will be livestreamed on NASA TV, which you can watch either on NASA’s website or using the embedded video above. How to watch JUICE mission launch to Jupiter’s icy moons How to watch Friday’s historic spacewalk at the ISS How to watch SpaceX’s spacecraft take a very short trip on Saturday
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