The final Antares 230+ rocket will send a Cygnus cargo ship to the space station with 8,300 pounds of equipment and supplies.
Northrop Grumman readied its final Antares 230+ rocket for launch Tuesday on a flight to deliver 4 tons of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station, the swan song for a booster built in a cooperative venture with U.S., Russian and Ukrainian components.
"This vehicle will deliver over 8,000 pounds of cargo," said station program manager Joel Montalbano. The total includes"just over 2,400 pounds of utilization and research hardware, over 2,000 pounds of systems hardware and over 3,500 pounds of crew support equipment that we'll use for spacewalks as well as food and other consumables for the crew."
"We've had a number of personnel here on site at Wallops, and they've provided their usual support over the past year and are in their usual roles here for NG-19. "We appreciate that they are supportive of the International Space Station program and that they see the benefit to providing that support and getting these missions launched for the benefit of the entire ISS partnership," Eberly said.
She said the space station"enables scientists from around the world to really redefine the boundaries of their discipline by imagining what might be possible if you could take gravity out of the equation."
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