Wednesday, September 18, 2013

NASA once again conquer the cosmos. Cygnus into orbit - Polish Radio

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Thomas Owsinski 18/09/2013

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Cygnus was launched from Wallops space base in Virginia in the eastern United States.
Name of vessel, Cygnus is Latin for “swan” has built his company Orbital Sciences Corporation, which works with NASA.
” This company is responsible for the overall mission, from start to bring the ship back to Earth, “says one of the heads of the flight, Alan Lindenmoyer. It is a pioneering flight ship, in the hold it has almost 600 kg of food and clothing for the crew of the International Space Station. Since the end of the space shuttle flight in 2011, the year NASA had its own orbital cargo ships. It already has, thanks to the partnership with Orbital, as well as any other company, SpaceX, which last year sent to station its unmanned Dragon.
Transport vehicles has also Russia, Japan and Europe. Docking Cygnus on Sunday for five weeks from the ship odcumuje Station and 24 October will burn in the atmosphere and the remains fall into the Pacific Ocean.

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