As a result of Dream Chaser's delays, Starliner's problems, and the dropped Cygnus, NASA is now almost entirely reliant on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to get its astronauts to ...

The most recent Cygnus, which was launched in August and remains at the space station, was named the S.S. Laurel Clark after the STS-107 mission specialist who died on the space shuttle Columbia ...

The spacecraft is a robotic Cygnus freighter, built by the Virginia-based company Northrop Grumman. It had been scheduled to launch several tons of food, fuel and other supplies to the ISS from ...

While the spacecraft will appear to edge toward the ISS at a very slow pace, keep in mind that both the Cygnus and the station are actually orbiting Earth at a speed of around 17,500 mph.

The spacecraft was docked to the U.S. Unity module on the ISS' Earth -facing port. To detach it, flight controllers on the ground instructed the robotic Canadarm2 to conduct the procedure, and then ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Northrup Grumman's Cygnus resupply spacecraft reached the International Space Station early Tuesday morning, delivering some four tons of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, NASA ...