Orbital and NASA hold science briefing update for next resupply mission to ISS

Orbital and NASA hold sci­ence brief­ing update for next resup­ply mis­sion to ISS



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Orbital Sci­ences Corp. and NASA held a pre launch sci­ence update to dis­cuss the mis­sion’s sci­ence car­go aboard the SS Deke Slay­ton space­craft soon to depart for the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion on Mon­day, Oct. 27. 

Orbital’s Cygnus car­go space­craft will launch from the Mid-Atlantic Region­al Space­port’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wal­lops Flight Facil­i­ty in Vir­ginia and will trans­port almost 5,000 pounds of sup­plies, includ­ing sci­ence exper­i­ments, crew pro­vi­sions, spare parts and exper­i­ment hard­ware. Expe­di­tion 41 crew mem­bers Reid Wise­man and Bar­ry Wilmore of NASA will be ready in the station’s cupo­la to cap­ture the resup­ply craft with the sta­tion’s robot­ic arm and install it on the Earth-fac­ing port of the sta­tion’s Har­mo­ny module. 

Con­tin­u­ing the tra­di­tion of nam­ing its space­craft after astro­nauts who have made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to space­flight, Orbital dubbed this Cygnus resup­ply ship the SS Deke Slay­ton. The name is a trib­ute to orig­i­nal Mer­cury 7 astro­naut Don­ald “Deke” K. Slay­ton, who flew on the Apol­lo-Soyuz Test Project mis­sion in 1975 and cham­pi­oned com­mer­cial space endeav­ors after retir­ing from NASA in 1982. Slay­ton passed away in 1993.



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