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Home A crane lifts the Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 so the spacecraft can be bolted to the top of the waiting United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Built by Orbital ATK, the Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. (United Launch Alliance) A crane lifts the Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 so the spacecraft can be bolted to the top of the waiting United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Built by Orbital ATK, the Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. (United Launch Alliance)

A crane lifts the Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 so the spacecraft can be bolted to the top of the waiting United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Built by Orbital ATK, the Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. (United Launch Alliance)

A crane lifts the Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 so the spacecraft can be bolted to the top of the waiting United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Built by Orbital ATK, the Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. (United Launch Alliance)

A crane lifts the Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 so the spacecraft can be bolted to the top of the waiting United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Built by Orbital ATK, the Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. (United Launch Alliance)

This artist concept depicts the Space Launch System rocket rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built and will launch the agency’s Orion spacecraft into a new era of exploration to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)