November 23, 2024

On This Day in Space! Oct. 17, 2016: Antares Rocket Returns to Flight

On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Space Systems) returned to flight, successfully releasing a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) after its previous freight mission failed to introduce. This upcoming Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, an Antares rocket will release from Wallops Flight Facility, carrying a freight craft holding a payload of crew materials and clinical experiments to the International Space Station. Still not sufficient space?