Gorgeous Liftoff for Antares Commercial Rocket and Cygnus Cargo Freighter Carrying Space Cookie Oven, Mice and EVA Tools to ISS: Photos

Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus NG-12 resupply spacecraft onboard, launched at 9:59 a.m. EDT from Pad-0A of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Nov. 2, 2019.  Cygnus is loaded with 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/SpaceUpClose.com

2 November 2019

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM

NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA – After mid-week torrential downpours cleared out hordes of space enthusiasts witnessed a gorgeous liftoff of the most powerful version of the Northrop Grumman commercial Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo freighter from NASA’s mid-Atlantic launch base on Virginia’s eastern shore to the International Space Station on Saturday, Nov. 2 carrying a space cookie oven, a crew of micetonauts and newly developed EVA tools for spacewalking astronauts needed to extend the life of the critical AMS dark matter experiment attached to outposts truss.

The breakfast time blastoff of the Antares Cygnus NG-12 mission on Northrop Grumman’s 12th commercial resupply mission to the space station from Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport occurred right on time at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility seaside launch pad 0A at 9:59 a.m. EDT Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019 from launch pad 0A.

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