NG 15 Rollout

Personnel prepare to mate the Transporter-Erector-Launcher, also called the TEL, carrying a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket to the launch mount on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares arrived at the launch pad on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in preparation for launch at 12:36 p.m. EST, Feb. 20, 2021. The launch will be Northrop Grumman’s 15th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station, carrying about 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Antares is carrying the company’s CRS-15 Cygnus cargo spacecraft named after NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, a Black woman who time and again broke through barriers of gender and race. Photo Credit: (NASA/Patrick Black)