... We embarked on a plan to design something that had the volume of a Cygnus, had the mass of a Cygnus, had the center of gravity and such of a Cygnus, so that Antares would feel like it?s lifting a Cygnus and have to respond accordingly. ...
... to JSC in late 2012, Johnson headed the visiting vehicles working group within the astronaut office, which helped plan, train and execute missions of Space X Dragon, Orbital Cygnus and JAXA HTV cargo vehicles to and from the International Space Station ...
... We?re flying an enhanced-capability rocket with a standard-capability Cygnus, just because NASA ISS wanted certain features on that Cygnus, dual-berth visiting vehicle features that allow two visiting vehicles to be berthed at the same time. ...
... of operation that we ultimately put into the Cygnus, where it would fly up next to ... to the approach we use today with the Cygnus that involves berthing to one of the ... sensors, and some of the technology in the Cygnus vehicle for other missions ...
... Vehicle], and now, two US capabilities with Orbital ATK?s Cygnus and SpaceX?s Dragon ... a row, we would have lost an Antares Cygnus vehicle, a Russian Progress vehicle, and ...
... going on, in parallel, we were continuing to develop and built the Cygnus spacecraft ... went through the development of the Cygnus, there were always challenges, and lots ... The Cygnus itself can be used for other purposes, too. ...
... In the case of our COTS spacecraft, which we call Cygnus, we found an example of that for the Pressurized Cargo Module in ... of the rocket was also going to be the first flight of the Cygnus spacecraft, and the first time we went all the way to the ...
... office in particular, my view is that their main role and their main utility was as a lubricant for this machinery that is the ISS Program Office and the Orbital Cygnus?that?s the name of our spacecraft?to mesh together without grinding and without noises ...