Not including its demonstration flight, Cygnus has been launched five times, with one,
Cygnus CRS Orb-3, suffering a launch failure. Although designed to be launched by Orbital ATK's
Antares rocket from
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, damage to the launch pad caused by the Orb-3 failure led to two Cygnus missions being moved to
Atlas V rockets launched from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Cygnus was renewed for the second round of the Commercial Resupply Services in 2016.
She served on the committees that investigated the
Challenger and
Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.
Ride died following a 17-month-long battle with
pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. Shortly before her death, she came out as a
homosexual in a statement through her philanthropic enterprise, Sally Ride Science.
A
transit of
Earth by the
Moon, as photographed by the
Deep Space Climate Observatory from the
Sun-Earth L1Lagrangian point. This animation was compiled from a set of 60 frames—20 distinct images, each compiled from monochrome images taken in red, green and blue filters—taken over the course of five hours on July 16, 2015. Each monochrome frame was taken every 30 seconds. Due to the speed of the Moon's motion, this results in a slight green shift in some frames of the animation.
Not including its demonstration flight, Cygnus has been launched five times, with one,
Cygnus CRS Orb-3, suffering a launch failure. Although designed to be launched by Orbital ATK's
Antares rocket from
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, damage to the launch pad caused by the Orb-3 failure led to two Cygnus missions being moved to
Atlas V rockets launched from
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Cygnus was renewed for the second round of the Commercial Resupply Services in 2016.
She served on the committees that investigated the
Challenger and
Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.
Ride died following a 17-month-long battle with
pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. Shortly before her death, she came out as a
homosexual in a statement through her philanthropic enterprise, Sally Ride Science.
A
transit of
Earth by the
Moon, as photographed by the
Deep Space Climate Observatory from the
Sun-Earth L1Lagrangian point. This animation was compiled from a set of 60 frames—20 distinct images, each compiled from monochrome images taken in red, green and blue filters—taken over the course of five hours on July 16, 2015. Each monochrome frame was taken every 30 seconds. Due to the speed of the Moon's motion, this results in a slight green shift in some frames of the animation.
