Final ATV Cargo Spacecraft Launched To Space Station | Video

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 19:30 in Astronomy & Space

The fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5), named "Georges Lemaître", was launched from Kourou, French Guiana on July 29th, 2014 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the heaviest spacecraft ever launched by the European Space Agency.

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