Payload / Mission
Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
Type
Resupply
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
This is the seventh flight of the Orbital ATK's unmanned resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its sixth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Orbital ATK named the vehicle after astronaut Alan Poindexter who was the commander of STS-131.
