An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen because it launches from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Thursday, January 9, 2014, Wallops Island, VA. Antares is carrying the Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences’ first contracted cargo supply flight to the area station for NASA. Cygnus is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare components and different {hardware} to the area station.
