International Space station provides launched with a pizza supply for 7

By: AP | Cape Canaveral (florida) |
August 11, 2021 12:57:06 pm
Northrop Grumman’s newest area station supply consists of pizza for seven. The 3,700-kilogram cargo consists of recent apples, tomatoes and kiwi, together with a pizza package and cheese smorgasbord for the seven station astronauts.
The firm’s Cygnus cargo ship rocketed away from Virginia’s jap shore Tuesday. It ought to attain the International Space Station on Thursday.

Liftoff of @NorthropGrumman’s #Cygnus area freighter at 6:01pm ET at present! It will attain the station on Thursday for a seize at 6:10am with the #Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by @Astro_Megan. More… https://t.co/pl9k5pIJA6 pic.twitter.com/5a9rFRIry0
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 10, 2021
Also flying: a mounting bracket for brand new photo voltaic wings launching to the orbiting lab subsequent 12 months, a cloth simulating moon mud and dust that will likely be used to create gadgets from the area station’s 3D printer, slime mildew for a French academic experiment referred to as Blob and an infrared-detecting gadget meant as a prototype for future monitoring satellites.
It is Northrop Grumman’s sixteenth provide run for NASA and its greatest load but. The firm’s Antares rocket hoisted the capsule from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
“Aloha to the S.S. Ellison Onizuka,” Northrop Grumman mentioned through Launch Control minutes earlier than liftoff. The capsule was named for Hawaii’s Onizuka, the primary Asian American in area who died within the 1986 Challenger launch catastrophe.
NASA’s different shipper, SpaceX, will observe with a cargo run in just a few weeks.
The area station is at the moment residence to 3 Americans, two Russians, one French and one Japanese.