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Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (AA) announced that it has agreed to form a joint venture with Russias VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, a leading maker of titanium ingots and forged products. Both Alcoa and VSMPO-AVISMA signed a cooperation agreement in Moscow to develop high end titanium and aluminum products for the aerospace industry.
The joint venture is expected to be operational in 2016 and once formed, will combine Alcoas expertise in manufacturing value-added products which utilize VSMPO-AVISMAs expertise in the production of titanium. Finished product manufactures will include high-end aerospace goods such as landing gear and forged wing components at Alcoas Samara plant.
Through the agreement, Alcoa will be able to increase its competitiveness and position its global aerospace business for continued profitable growth. VSMPO-AVISMA, on the other hand, will get access to unique forging equipment, enabling it to increase output and maintain consistent supply. The company can thereby increase its productivity and presence in the market.
Alcoa estimates that the aerospace market would grow 9%-10% in 2013 and with this joint venture in place both can work on their respective strengths in making the largest and most advanced aerospace forgings in the world.
A few days ago, Alcoa released its third quarter results. The company posted a profit of $24 million or 2 cents per share in the quarter compared with a loss of $143 million or 13 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. The results include restructuring and other one-time charges/gains of $96 million.
Excluding one-time special items, earnings were $120 million or 11 cents a share in the quarter, much ahead of the year-ago earnings of $76 million or 7 cents per share and Zacks Consensus Estimate of 6 cents. Productivity gains, strong demand from auto makers, healthy operating performance and cost cutting supported the results despite lower metal prices.
Revenues dropped roughly 1.2% to $5,765 million from $5,833 million in the year-ago quarter but exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5,713 million. The decline was due to weak aluminum prices, offset by strong demand in the aerospace and automotive end markets. Alcoa reiterated its global aluminum demand growth expectation of 7% for 2013.
Alcoa, a prominent player in the mining industry along with Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd. (ACH), Atlatsa Resources Corp. (ATL) and BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP), is a world leader in production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. The company is also the worlds largest miner of bauxite and refiner of alumina.
Alcoa currently retains a short-term Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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BELLEVUE, WA October 23, 2013 Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance, a non-profit aerospace organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of the aerospace industry in the Northwest, announced its new board following its Annual Meeting to elect directors and officers on September 24, 2013. The PNAA board has a new president, vice president and one new member at large.
JC Hall, Esterline Hytek Finishes, was elected Chairman and will replace Kevin Steck of EADS Composites Atlantic. Bob Uptagrafft, Impact Washington, was elected Vice Chairman and will replace Bill King, SubRosa Aero. Both Steck and King will remain on the board. John Graham, of Redmond-based Fulcrum Associates, was re-elected secretary and Tom Sanger, Moss Adams LLP., was re-elected treasurer. PNAA welcomed aerospace analyst Michel Merluzeau, G2 Solutions, as a new board member. Merluzeau will replace aerospace analyst Scott Hamilton who stepped off the board in May.
"We are pleased that JC and Bob have stepped forward to carry PNAA's leadership torch. Their aerospace experience and proven business leadership, as well as their experience as PNAA committee chairs, will serve our organization well," said PNAA Executive Director Melanie Jordan. "In addition, we welcome Michel Merluzeau to our board of directors. Serving on the board of a thriving non-profit like PNAA requires dedication, time, and a commitment to the industry. We are incredibly grateful to Michel for committing his time and talents to strengthening our organization. His experience and industry insights will have a tremendous impact on our organization and the Northwest aerospace industry."
PNAA's board consists of: Chairman JC Hall, Esterline Hytek Finishes; Vice Chairman Bob Uptagrafft, Impact Washington; Secretary John Graham, Fulcrum Associates; Treasurer Tom Sanger, Moss Adams LLP; Tom Brosius, Orion Aerospace, Ted Croft, Pyrotek; Bill King, SubRosa LLC; John Monroe, Economic Alliance Snohomish County; Jim Sheehan, Technical Aero; Kevin Steck, EADS Composites Atlantic; Rick Taylor, Altek and Michel Merluzeau, G2 Solutions.
JC Hall is the Sales Manager for Esterline Hytek Finishes. Hytek Finishes is the largest independent supplier of specialized metal finishing, plating, anodizing and organic coating services in the Pacific Northwest and one of the largest in North America. In addition to his duties at Hytek, Mr. Hall serves on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance and is a member of the Air Transport Research International Forum (ATRIF). His forty years in aerospace includes past service as Executive Director of the Washington Aerospace Alliance and almost 30 years of military service with the US Air Force and US Navy flying the F-4 Phantom, F-101 Voodoo, F-111, and EA-6B Prowler.
Bob Uptagrafft is a Senior Project Manager and Aerospace Specialist for Impact Washington and PNAA's Public Policy Chair. A graduate of the UW Executive Development Program, his career spans over 25 years in technology and aerospace manufacturing. His expertise includes Strategic Planning, Corporate Growth Strategies, Change Management, and Executive Coaching.
John Graham has been a board member of the PNAA since 2006. He is president of Redmond based Fulcrum Associates. He has 35 years of experience in manufacturing and quality management. He has directed several teams through implementation of Quality Management Systems in aerospace, medical, and professional services industries. He has an extensive background in various engineering disciplines including research & development, design, test, manufacturing, and quality engineering. John is approved as an instructor for ANAB and IATCA AS9100 Lead Auditor training and teaches aerospace and ISO related courses at Bellevue Community College.
Tom Sanger has been a board member of the PNAA since 2005 and has been attending the conference for years. Tom is a Partner at Moss Adams LLP, where he started public accounting in 1994. He is a Partner in the Tax Specialty Group which is a group of 70+ professionals that provide tax services that serve all clients throughout the firm. These services include Cost Segregation, Research Credit, Other Federal Incentives and Credits, State and Local Taxes, Transfer Pricing, Federal Tax Controversy, and Comp and Benefits. Tom is in charge of the firm's Federal Credits and Incentives Group overseeing the Research Credit, Cost Segregation and Other Federal Credits and Incentives groups. These groups are structured to serve middle market clients in saving tax through various federal incentives and credits.
Michel Merluzeau is the Managing Partner at G2 Solutions. Prior to joining G2 Solutions, Michel spent over ten years at Frost & Sullivan's Silicon Valley headquarters in California as analyst and then Director for Airborne Systems research. In addition, he spent three years at the Frost & Sullivan European headquarters in London, England, directing a core group of consultants and analysts. Michel's projects ranged from complex end-user surveys to new product launch strategies, regional market entry programs, and acquisition strategies. Furthermore, Michel has been involved in numerous forecasting and analysis projects for civilian and military markets including fighter, transport, regional and business aircraft as well as helicopter markets. A graduate of the University of Provence in France, Michel is also a regular speaker at the Speednews Defense Supplier conference, Frost & Sullivan Competitive Intelligence conferences, and several Avionics magazine conferences.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- UTC Aerospace Systems reports it is developing a generator sub-system for the U.S. military's Abrams M1A2SEPv2 baseline tank.
The contract was given by General Dynamics Land Systems and is part of an upgrade to the tank, for which General Dynamics was selected by the U.S. Army late last year.
UTC Aerospace Systems will design, develop, build and qualify the sub-system prototypes, which will include the electric generator and CAN-bus-enabled digital controller. The subsystem will be capable of delivering up to 28 kW of output power at 28VDC to meet the current and future electric power needs of the tank.
The digital controller will regulate the power and will be developed and supplied by Global Embedded Technologies in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Prototypes of the sub-system are to be delivered to General Dynamics Land Systems in the second half of next year for installation and qualification field testing.
UTC Aerospace said its Space Systems business in Illinois will build the generator sub-system but gave no details on the monetary value of the award.
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B/E Aerospace, Inc. (BEAV), the worlds leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and the worlds leading provider of aerospace fasteners, consumables and logistics services, today announced its third quarter 2013 financial results.
THIRD QUARTER 2013 HIGHLIGHTS VERSUS THIRD QUARTER PRIOR YEAR
THIRD QUARTER CONSOLIDATED RESULTS
Third quarter 2013 revenues of $888.1 million increased $121.4 million, or 15.8 percent, as compared with the prior year period.
Third quarter 2013 operating earnings were $160.1 million, an increase of 19.2 percent, and operating margin of 18.0 percent increased 50 basis points as compared to the prior year period. Acquisition, integration and transaction (AIT) costs in the third quarter were approximately $6.9 million, including expenses associated with the Blue Dot Energy Services LLC (Blue Dot) acquisition. Operating earnings, adjusted to exclude AIT costs, were $167.0 million, an increase of 20.2 percent, and adjusted operating margin of 18.8 percent increased 70 basis points compared to the prior year similarly adjusted to exclude AIT costs.
Third quarter 2013 net earnings and earnings per diluted share were $92.7 million and $0.89 per share, increases of 26.5 percent and 25.4 percent, respectively, as compared with the prior year period, as adjusted to exclude third quarter 2012 debt prepayment costs and adjusting the third quarter 2012 tax rate to the higher third quarter 2013 tax rate for comparability purposes.
Commenting on the Companys third quarter 2013 performance, Amin J. Khoury, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of B/E Aerospace said, Todays third quarter 2013 results include record quarterly revenues, bookings, and operating earnings. Our revenue growth this quarter was driven by a double-digit increase in aftermarket demand, as well as a double-digit increase in demand related to the strong commercial aircraft delivery cycle. In addition, we are pleased to report that the consumables management segment aftermarket business experienced an accelerating growth rate in both revenues and orders during the quarter.
THIRD QUARTER SEGMENT RESULTS
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San Francisco, CA, October 22, 2013 A study performed at Children's Hospital Los Angeles found no evidence that stem cell therapy improves vision for children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH). Their results are reported in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS).
ONH, an underdevelopment of optic nerves that occurs during fetal development, may appear either as an isolated abnormality or as part of a group of disorders characterized by brain anomalies, developmental delay, and endocrine abnormalities. ONH is a leading cause of blindness in children in North America and Europe and is the only cause of childhood blindness that shows increasing prevalence. No treatments have been shown to improve vision in these children.
With no viable treatment options available to improve vision, ophthalmologists are becoming aware that families with children affected by ONH are travelling to China seeking stem cell therapy, despite lack of approval in the United States and Europe or evidence from controlled trials. The American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus has also expressed its concern about these procedures. In response to this situation, pediatric neuro-ophthalmologist Mark Borchert, MD, Director of both the Eye Birth Defects and Eye Technology Institutes in The Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, realized that a controlled trial of sufficient size was needed to evaluate whether stem cell therapy is effective at improving optic nerve function in children with ONH. He agreed to conduct an independent study when asked by Beike Biotech, a company based in Shenzhen, China, that offers treatment for ONH using donor umbilical cord stem cells injected into the cerebral spinal fluid.
Beike Biotech agreed to identify 10 children with bilateral ONH (ages 7-17 years) who had volunteered to travel to China for stem cell therapy and who agreed to participate in the study; Children's Hospital was to find case matched controls from their clinic. However, only two case-controlled pairs were evaluated because Beike Biotech was only able to recruit two patients. Treatments consisted of six infusions over a 16-day period of umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells and daily infusions of growth factors. Visual acuity, optic nerve size, and sensitivity to light were to be evaluated one month before stem cell therapy and three and nine months after treatment.
No therapeutic effect was found in the two case-control pairs that were enrolled. "The results of this study show that children greater than 7 years of age with ONH may have spontaneous improvement in vision from one examination to the next. This improvement occurs equally in children regardless of whether or not they received treatment. Other aspects of the eye examination included pupil responses to light and optic nerve size; these did not change following treatment. The results of this research do not support the use of stem cells in the treatment of ONH at this time," says lead author Cassandra Fink, MPH, program administrator at The Vision Center, Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Confounding the trial was that subjects received additional alternative therapies (acupuncture, functional electrical stimulation, and exercise) while receiving stem cell treatments, which was contrary to the trial protocol. The investigators could not determine the effect of these additional therapies.
"This study underscores the importance of scientifically testing these procedures to validate them and also to ensure their safety. Parents of afflicted children should be aware that the science behind the use of stem cell technology is unclear. This study takes a step toward testing this technology and finds no beneficial effect," says William V. Good, MD, Senior Associate Editor, Journal of AAPOS and Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Senior Scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.
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Orbital Sciences Corp.s Cygnus cargo capsule left the International Space Station on Tuesday, wrapping up a successful test flight that clears the company to begin making regular resupply runs for NASA beginning in December.
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Cygnus is the second commercial freighter, developed in partnership in NASA, to reach the space station, which had been dependent on cargo ships built and operated by partners Russia, Europe and Japan to keep the station stocked following the retirement of the space shuttles in 2011.
Space Exploration Technologies, which started work for NASA about 18 months before Orbital Sciences, made a test flight to the station in May 2012 and so far has completed two of 12 planned resupply missions.
Cygnus, which unlike SpaceXs Dragon capsule does not return to Earth, is expected to fire its braking rocket on Wednesday to lower its orbit and allow itself to be dragged back into the planets atmosphere for incineration.
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The capsule was loaded up with garbage and items no longer needed aboard the station before its release at 7:31 a.m. EDT on Tuesday.
We are delighted to now have two American companies able to resupply the station, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement.
Orbitals success today is helping make NASAs future exploration to farther destinations possible, he added.
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The Cygnus commercial resupply craft built by Orbital Sciences Corp. departed the ISS this morning (Oct. 22) to complete its maiden voyage after being released from Canadarm2 by station astronauts. Credit: NASA TV
Commercial space took another major leap forward this morning, Oct 22., when the privately developed Cygnus cargo vehicle undocked from the International Space Station on its historic maiden flight and successfully completed a highly productive month long stay during its demonstration mission mostly amidst the US government shutdown.
The Cygnus was maneuvered about 10 meters (30 feet) away from the station and held in the steady grip of the stations fully extended robotic arm when astronauts Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano unlatched the arm and released the ship into free space at 7:31 a.m. EDT today signifying an end to joint flight operations.
The next Cygnus resupply vessel is due to blast off in mid-December and is already loaded with new science experiments for microgravity research and assorted gear and provisions.
After the Expedition 37 crew members quickly pulled the arm back to a distance 1.5 meters away from Cygnus, ground controllers issued a planned abort command to fire the ships thrusters and safely depart from the massive orbiting lab complex.
Space Station robotic arm releases Cygnus after detachment from the ISS Harmony node. Credit: NASA TV
Its been a great mission. Nice work today! radioed Houston Mission Control at NASAs Johnson Space Center.
The vehicles were flying over the Atlantic Ocean and off the east coast of Argentina as Cygnus left the station some 250 miles (400 km) overhead in low Earth orbit.
The event was carried live on NASA TV and Cygnus was seen moving rapidly away.
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Cygnus Commercial Cargo Craft Completes Historic First Flight to Space Station
The first privately built Cygnus cargo ship to visit the International Space Station detached from the orbiting lab Tuesday (Oct. 22) and is poised to destroy itself in Earth's atmosphere in a fiery finale to its successful test flight.
The unmanned Cygnus spacecraft built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., was released by astronauts using the station's robotic arm at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT) as both space vehicles sailed high above the Atlantic Ocean, east of Argentina. The spacecraft is expected to fire its rocket thrusters Wednesday (Oct. 23) to leave orbit and burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
On the space station, astronauts and cosmonauts bid farewell to the visiting cargo ship. Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano of Italy thanked Orbital and Cygnus ground control teams, adding that it was a honor to watch over the spacecraft's first test flight. [See photos from Orbital Sciences' 1st Cygnus test flight]
"It was a real pleasure to work both with Cygnus and all the people on the ground," Parmitano radioed NASA's Mission Control in Houston.
Cygnus test flight success
The departure of Cygnus caps a successful test flight of the new spacecraft by Orbital and sets the stage for the first official cargo delivery to the space station in December. Orbital Sciences has a $1.9 billion contract with NASA to deliver supplies to the space station with at least eight Cygnus spacecraft.
The next Cygnus spacecraft is expected to launch to the space station in December to fly Orbital's first official cargo delivery mission for NASA.
This first Cygnus launched toward the space station on Sept. 18 atop an Orbital-built Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The spacecraft arrived at the station on Sept. 29, about seven days later than planned due to a software glitch and the launch of a new crew to the orbiting lab on Sept. 25.
Orbital's disposable Cygnus spacecraft are silver cylinders about 17 feet (5 meters) long that are built for the company by Thales Alenia Space in Italy. Cygnus is powered by an Orbital-built service module containing two solar wings for power, as well as rocket thrusters. Each Cygnus is capable of carrying up to 4,409 pounds (2,000 kg) of supplies, though the first test vehicle was packed with only 1,543 pounds (700 kilograms) of supplies and gear, Orbital officials said.
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NASA has reversed a ban on six Chinese scientists from a space conference in California next month after prominent US astronomers threatened a boycott.
The US space agency has called the ban a mistake, saying officials misinterpreted a security law in barring the scientists from its Kepler Science Conference in November.
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A NASA committee has now written to the six to change course.
"We have since been able to clarify the intent of the referenced legislation and are pleased to inform you that this decision has been reversed and your paperwork is being reviewed for clearance," China's official Xinhua news agency quoted the letter as saying.
"We hope you will be able to join us," it added.
Xinhua said the space agency changed course after its initial decision caused an uproar among some US scientists.
Geoff Marcy, an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an email to the organizers: "The meeting is about planets located trillions of miles away, with no national security implications."
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NASA scientists say the first tests of what could someday become an outer space Internet have far surpassed their expectations.
"It's been beyond what we expected," said Don Cornwell, the Lunar Laser Communications Mission manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "We obviously expected it would work well, but this is even better... Everything going better than we thought it would. We're running these systems error free."
With the tests already going so well, NASA is encouraged that a laser communications system could be the building blocks of an outer space Internet.
"This is the beginning of that," Cornwell told Computerworld. "I think we could have that with delay tolerant networking. This is the beginning."
NASA's lunar spacecraft, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or LADEE, has begin a monthlong test of a high data-rate laser communication system.
If the system works as planned, similar laser systems are expected to replace radio systems to speed up future satellite communications as well as deep space communications with robots and human exploration crews.
Using a laser for communications would enable astronauts and robots similar to the Mars rover Curiosity or the lunar orbiter, to send and receive far greater data loads, whether they're in orbit around Earth, on the moon or a distant asteroid.
Space exploration is largely about the data. Rovers and astronauts are expected to take measurements, photos and video of distant planets and asteroids. However, if there's a data bottleneck and they can't get that information back to scientists on Earth, the entire mission could be crippled.
The large pipe that laser communications give NASA scientists will become increasingly important as explorations travel farther from Earth.
Cornwell said LADEE ran its first laser test on Oct. 17 and has since run three more. And so far, the communications link-up has worked perfectly every time.
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NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, a Waterbury, Conn., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6-7 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 25.
Mastracchio will participate in the interviews from Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and depart the following day for the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Leading up to the live interviews, NASA Television will air at 5:30 a.m. pre-recorded video of Mastracchio's mission training and previous spaceflights.
To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-8684 no later than 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.
Mastracchio earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and postgraduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Houston at Clear Lake. A veteran of three space shuttle flights, Mastracchio was a mission specialist on STS-106, STS-118 and STS-131, and has logged almost 40 days in space. He also conducted six spacewalks totaling 38 hours, 30 minutes.
Mastracchio will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:14 p.m. EST Nov. 6, along with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency. The trio will start their time aboard the station as part of Expedition 37, and will return to Earth in May 2014 as part of the Expedition 38 crew.
When Mastracchio, Wakata Tyurin arrive at the station Nov. 7, they will join Expedition 37 astronauts Karen Nyberg and Michael Hopkins of NASA, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Fyodor Yurchikhin.
This crew will participate in several hundred experiments that cross the fields of biology and biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their mission, which will last almost six months.
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NASA wants to offload cargo runs to the space station to private companies so it can focus more on exploration. Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo ship just finished its first mission.
The second of two commercial spacecraft NASA has tapped to resupply the International Space Station wrapped up its qualifying run to the orbiting outpost successfully on Tuesday. It now is headed for incineration when it reenters Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday.
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Astronauts aboard the space station used the station's robotic arm to gently move Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus cargo craft away from the station, releasing it at 7:31 Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday.
It was a wipe-the-brow moment for NASA. For eight years, the agency has worked to outsource cargo-hauling duties to the space station in anticipation of retiring the space shuttles in 2011. The agency was tasked with refocusing its human-spaceflight program on exploration beyond low-Earth orbit.
While the space agency and Congress are still sorting out those next steps, NASA is claiming success for its work to stimulate the emergence of companies that own and operate their own rockets and cargo craft.
We are delighted to now have two American companies able to resupply the station, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. said in a statement Tuesday, referring to Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in addition to Orbital Sciences. Orbital's success today is helping make NASA's future exploration to farther destinations possible.
Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Va., launched Cygnus atop the company's Antares rocket Sept. 18. The launch took place at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, on the grounds of NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virgina coast. The craft was to have docked with the space station four days later. But a software glitch prevented an initial attempt at a rendezvous.
Software engineers fixed the problem. But the delay prompted mission controllers to hold off on a second rendezvous attempt until an incoming Russian Soyuz spacecraft could deliver three crew members to the station. The Soyuz craft arrived on Sept. 25. Cygnus docked four days later, carrying some 1,300 pounds of food, clothes, and experiments designed by elementary, middle-school, and high-school students.
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