The Cygnus spacecraft will catch up with the space station on Tuesday, bringing more than 4 tons of needed supplies and equipment.
Running a day late due to weather, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship loaded with more than four tons of supplies, spare parts, fresh food and science gear blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, kicking off a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station .
If all goes well, the Cygnus, named in honor of Challenger commander Francis 'Dick' Scobee, will catch up with the space station early Tuesday, pulling up to within about 30 feet of the outpost and standing by for capture by the lab's robot arm around 3:10 a.m.From there, flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston will operate the arm remotely, moving Cygnus in for berthing at an Earth-facing port on the central Unity module.
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