Cygnus Resupply Module Now At Home -- As A Part Of The ISS. Flawless Mission Completion.

Yes -- I confess. I am a nerd. I set an alarm and woke, at about 2:05 am local -- and watched it from my iPhone (complete with NASA-TV screen grabs at right).

I am very pleased to report that the slight delay in firing the engines did not affect the mission in any lasting way. Here's the latest:

. . .Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft installation on the International Space Station is complete at 5:33 a.m. EDT.

The spacecraft carried 8,200 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory for Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply mission for NASA.

The mission launched at 11:02 a.m. Aug. 4 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Cygnus will remain at the space station until January when it departs the orbiting laboratory at which point it will dispose of several thousand pounds of debris through its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere where it will harmlessly burn up.. . .

Onward -- grinning. . . .

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