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Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo craft launched from Wallops Flight Facility on the Orbital-2 mission -- the company's second operational resupply mission to the International Space Station,...

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog.

A multitude of NASA research investigations, crew provisions, hardware and science experiments from across the country is headed to the International Space Station aboard Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus spacecraft. The c...

After a string of delays, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, on July 13 launched its second paid cargo mission to the international space station for NASA, setting up the company's expendable Cygnus space capsul...

See amazing photos of the 'supermoon' full moon of July 12, 2014 as seen by stargazers around the world in this Space.com gallery. It was the first of three supermoons in July, August and September.

Packed with astronaut food, science experiments and a flock of tiny satellites, a private spaceship made by Orbital Sciences Corp. launched from Virginia's Eastern Shore today (July 13) on a mission to the International ...

NASA Breaking News: A multitude of NASA research investigations, crew provisions, hardware and science experiments from across the country is headed to the International Space Station aboard Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygn...

The private space company Orbital Sciences launched it second mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on July 13th, 2014. It launched aboard the company's Antares Rocket...

Orbital's Antares rocket will launch the Cygnus spacecraft from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Launch Pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia today at 12:52 p.m. EDT....

I missed it when it was originally posted last week, but thanks to IFLS I saw this very cool Vine video taken by International Space Station astronaut Reid Wiseman, showing lightning flashes inside a cloud as he sailed h...

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A robotic spacecraft built by the private company Orbital Sciences is set to launch from the Eastern Shore of Virginia Sunday (July 13) on a mission to deliver experiments and supplies to the astronauts living aboard Int...

See amazing photos from Orbital Sciences' July 2014 launch of its second commercial cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA using its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft.

Look! Up in the sky! It's supermoon!

Orbital Sciences Corporation is poised to launch on Sunday its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship packed with more than 3,000 pounds of supplies for astronauts at the International Space Station.