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NASA Aims Moving Up Orbital ATK CRS Mission To October

Pat Host

Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

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NASA Aims Moving Up Orbital ATK CRS Mission To October

The International Space Station. Photo: NASA

NASA is aiming to move up Orbital ATK’s [OA] next Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) mission from December to October if the manifest allows, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier said Sunday.The announcement comes after the CRS program suffered its third consecutive failed mission with Sunday’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) failure on the company’s seventh CRS trip. Orbital ATK had its own Antares launch failure last October while a Russian progress spacecraft spun out of control in…

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