NASA clears Orbital Sciences for test flight to space station

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Sept 19: NASA on Monday  cleared a second commercial company to launch a cargo ship to the International Space Station, with blastoff slated this week from a Virginia spaceport. If successful, Orbital Sciences Corp. Would join privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, in flying supplies to the space station, a $100 billion research complex that orbits about 250 miles above Earth. (agencies)

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