Antares Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad

The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft aboard, rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility to begin the roughly half-mile journey to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, July 10, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The launch to the International Space Station in scheduled for 1:14 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 12.

Roll-out began at shortly after 4 a.m., with arrival at the pad about an hour later.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

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