After weeks of delay, Cygnus cargo spaceship blasts off for space station
Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 04:08
in Astronomy & Space
Orbital Sciences Corp.'s robotic Cygnus space capsule was launched Thursday on its first official cargo-carrying mission to the International Space Station — after weeks of delay caused by a breakdown on the space station, frigid weather on the East Coast, and a radiation storm from the sun.