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The heartbreaking human story behind NASA’s Cygnus ISS mission – Inverse
The mission honors the legacy of astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
On Wednesday morning,
the NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) where it has been parked for the past three months. It was sent to deliver precious science cargo to the space laboratory floating 254 miles above Earth. Now the spacecraft will make its way back to Earth where it will (safely) burn in the planet’s atmosphere.
This particular spacecraft is named S.S. Kalpana Chawla, in honor of an inspiring figure in space history astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who…
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