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Antares Rocket Erected at Virginia Pad for Inaugural April 17 Launch – Photo Gallery
1st fully integrated Antares rocket – decaled with huge American flag – stands firmly erect at seaside Launch Pad 0-A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on 6 April 2013 following night time rollout. Maiden Antares test launch is scheduled for 17 April 2013. Later operational flights are critical to resupply the ISS. Credit: Ken Kremer (kenkremer.com). See Antares rollout and erection photo gallery below
For the first time ever, the new and fully integrated commercial Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences was rolled out to its oceanside launch pad on a rather chilly Saturday morning (April 6) and erected at the very edge of the Eastern Virginia shoreline in anticipation of its maiden launch slated for April 17.
The inaugural liftoff of the privately developed two stage rocket is set for 5 p.m. from the newly constructed launch pad 0-A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
And Universe Today was there! See my photo gallery herein.(…)
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Post tags: Antares rocket, Commercial Space, COTS, Cygnus capsule, Dragon capsule, Falcon 9, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, NASA Wallops, SpaceX, Wallops Flight Facility
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2013-04-07 15:02:46
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Standing firmly erect? I think the US and Isreal now need a crane to get it up… totally flaccid.