Four spaceships are parked at the space station including Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter, the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 crew ship and ISS Progress 78 resupply ship.Courtesy NASA
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The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft successfully arrived and was installed at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning.
It delivered over 8,200 pounds of vital research and supplies to the space station.
NASA astronaut Megan McArthur used the Canadarm2 to grapple the spacecraft, which will remain docked at the ISS for approximately three months.
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft arrived and was installed at the International Space Station on Thursday morning.
It was bolted into place on the International Space Station’s Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 9:42 a.m. EDT. Cygnus will remain at the space station for about three months until the spacecraft departs in November.
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