In this time-lapse video, a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is transported from the Horizontal Integration Facility to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A. There it is lifted to its vertical position, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
This is Northrop Grumman's 15th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station and will deliver about 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. The CRS-15 Cygnus spacecraft is named after NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a Black woman who time and again broke through barriers of gender and race. The launch is scheduled for 12:36 p.m. EST, Feb. 20, 2021.
Video credit: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility/Patrick Black
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