WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — From the Eastern Shore to low-Earth orbit!
On Tuesday evening, NASA successfully launched an Antares supply rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A on Wallops Island in Virginia.
The rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:31 p.m. and was visible to residents throughout the region. This is Northrop Grumman's 19th commercial resupply services mission for NASA, delivering science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
The Cygnus spacecraft on board the rocket is expected to rendevous and dock with the space station shortly before 6 a.m. EDT on Friday.
The next scheduled launch at Wallops Flight Facility is August 15, when two sounding rockets will carry student experiments to suborbital space.