NASA and Northrop Grumman are eyeing a 12:40 p.m. ET launch on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station are about to receive a special delivery.<\/p>\n
NASA and Northrop Grumman are eyeing a 12:40 p.m. ET launch of the latest commercial resupply mission on Feb. 19 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.<\/p>\n
Loaded up withmore than 8,300 pounds of crew supplies, hardware and research, the Cygnus cargo spacecraft will get a lift to space from an Antares rocket.<\/p>\n
Among the cargo making the trek to the orbiting laboratory will be a study that examines the effects of a drug on breast cancer and prostate cancer cells, new hydrogen sensors to test the ISS's oxygen generation system and a new combustion facility.<\/p>\n
Also tucked away in the thousands of pounds of cargo will be a Colgate-Palmolive investigation that will \"leverage the acceleration of skin aging in microgravity.\"<\/p>\n
The cargo is set to arrive at the ISS in the early hours of Feb. 21. NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Kayla Barron will participate in the capture of Cygnus.<\/p>\n
The spacecraft will have a bit of a stay at the space station with a departure scheduled for May. NASA says Cygnus will dispose of several tons of trash during its \"fiery\" reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.<\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay will be streaming the launch live on Facebook, YouTubeand online. NASA will also be providing a live feed of the launch which can be found on its websiteor YouTubepage at 12:15 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
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