Cygnus cargo spacecraft launch. View of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard during its launch. Cygnus is on its way to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) and is carrying science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware to deliver to the space station. Photographed at launch Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, USA, on 13th July 2014.