NASA Commercial Partner Orbital Launches Cygnus to the ISS

NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard its Antares rocket at 10:58 a.m. EDT Wednesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The Cygnus spacecraft will deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).

“This is the first time a spacecraft launched from Virginia is blazing a trail toward the International Space Station, heralding a new U.S. capability to resupply the orbiting laboratory.”

Orbital along SpaceX have contracts to resupply the ISS.

– Press release: NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Launches Demonstration Mission to Space Station