Upgraded Antares Rocket Rolls to Virginia Launch Pad for Resupply Mission from NASA Wallops to ISS: Photos

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket is seen as it rolls out to Pad-0A, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Northrop Grumman’s 12th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 9:59 a.m. EDT Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

29 October 2019

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA –  The upgraded commercial Antares rocket  and Cygnus cargo freighter from Northrop Grumman rolled out Monday morning Oct 29  about 1 mile from the processing hanger to NASA’s oceanside pad on the eastern shore of Virginia on a resupply mission to the International Space Station carrying over 4 tons of research science and  supplies -including an oven to bake the first ‘Cookies in Space’ as well as gear to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment looking back to the origins of the Universe - for the six person multinational crew.

Complete story at Space UpClose here:

https://www.spaceupclose.com/2019/10/upgraded-antares-rocket-rolls-to-virginia-launch-pad-for-resupply-mission-from-nasa-wallops-to-iss-photos/