{"id":102402,"date":"2020-02-15T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/northrop-grumman-cygnus-launch-to-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2020-02-15T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:44:27","slug":"northrop-grumman-cygnus-launch-to-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/northrop-grumman-cygnus-launch-to-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Cygnus Launch to the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/606561443410744\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>***Update: Launch is now scheduled for 3:21 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 15. Live coverage begins at 2:45.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a cargo spacecraft lift off from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on a resupply mission to the International Space Station! \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>Launch is targeted at 3:43 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 14 for Northrop Grumman\u2019s 13th commercial resupply services mission. A previous launch attempt on Feb. 9 was scrubbed after off-nominal readings from a ground support sensor. The Cygnus cargo spacecraft, loaded with approximately 7,500 pounds of research, supplies and hardware, will launch atop an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. This Cygnus spacecraft is named the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence, in honor of the first African American to be selected as an astronaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***Update: Launch is now scheduled for 3:21 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 15. Live coverage begins at 2:45. Watch a cargo spacecraft lift off from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on a resupply mission to the International Space Station! \ud83d\ude80 Launch is targeted at 3:43 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 14 for Northrop Grumman\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}