The Science Onboard the Next ISS Supply Mission

The Sci­ence Onboard the Next ISS Sup­ply Mission



NASA,International Space Station,Orbital ATK’s Cygnus,CRS‑6 mission,Cygnus,United Launch Alliance,Atlas V,Cape Canaver­al Air Force Station,3‑D printer,adhesive device



Dur­ing a prelaunch brief­ing on March 21, sci­en­tists and researchers dis­cussed some of the inves­ti­ga­tions to be deliv­ered to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion by Orbital ATK’s Cygnus sup­ply space­craft, on its CRS‑6 mis­sion. Cygnus is sched­uled to launch at 11:05 p.m. EDT on March 22, atop a Unit­ed Launch Alliance Atlas V rock­et from Space Launch Com­plex 41 at Cape Canaver­al Air Force Sta­tion in Flori­da. The new exper­i­ments include an inves­ti­ga­tion that looks at the prop­er­ties and behav­ior of regolith, or “soil” found on aster­oids, comets, the moon, and oth­er air­less worlds; an instru­ment for the first-ever, space-based obser­va­tions of the chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion of mete­ors enter­ing Earth’s atmos­phere; a tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tion of an adhe­sive device that can stick on-com­mand in the harsh envi­ron­ment of space; and, the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of a portable onboard 3‑D printer.



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