Northrop Grumman's 11th Cygnus cargo resupply ship, christened the "S.S. Roger Chaffee" in honor of the Apollo 1 astronaut, stands ready for mating to a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket at NASA's ...

Alan Bean is headed back to space. The late Apollo 12 astronaut who launched from Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 14, 1969 on his way to the moon passed away in 2018, but Northrop Grumman has named it… ...

Northrop Grumman is honoring an Apollo 12 moonwalker with the naming of its 12th spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station. The "S.S. Alan Bean," a Cygnus spacecraft, pays tribute to ...

Over the eons, people have dreamed up all sorts of characters to associate with the 88 constellations seen from Earth. That’s certainly the case with the constellation Cygnus, the swan. I&#82… ...

Cygnus will bring the astronauts on station food, water, and a 3-D printer, among other ... Apollo 1 highlighted NASA’s poor emergency preparedness and various fire hazards inside the Apollo ...

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Among the gang of 88 constellations seen from Earth, with about 66 of them that we can see here, there are eight bird constellations. I suppose that only figures since birds spend a lot of time in … ...

Among the 65 to 70 constellations seen in the Northwest, the biggest and brightest celestial bird is Cygnus the Swan, flying nearly overhead. The brightest star at the tail of the high flying swan ...

That’s certainly the case with the constellation Cygnus the Swan. I’ll get to the story in just a bit, but first let me help you find the big bird of the summer heavens soaring in the eastern sky.

If Cygnus launches on time, will be captured by Canadarm2 and will dock with the ISS on Aug. 5 at approximately 3:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT). Coverage will start at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) on NASA+.

The Cygnus spacecraft bearing scientific experiments for NASA is on its way to the International Space Station following a Sunday ... The first lunar program since the Apollo era ended in 1972, ...