A fire alarm at the mission control center caused a delay in the launch of a rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station.
The rocket was about 10 minutes away from the launch site. When the flight was called off, it was from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. A fire alarm at the company's control center forced a building to be evacuated and prevented launch controllers from going through with the launch.
NASA is going to try it again tomorrow, because their safety is at the top of their list. Liftoff is scheduled for Monday, November 6. You can watch the launch on Space.com from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. The time is 1000GMT.
A mission to deliver more than 8,200 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station will be carried out by the Orbital ATK team. The 18th cargo mission for NASA was done by the same company.
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Due to refinements to the launch system, the upcoming launch is the heaviest delivery yet by the company. There is a bioprinter that will attempt to print a human knee in space and cow ovarian cells to study how weightlessness affects the growth of cells.
If all goes well, the NG-18 Cygnus cargo ship — which has been named the SS Sally Ride in honor of astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space who died in 2012 — should arrive at the space station on Wednesday (Nov. 10).
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