Just days after the Progress MS-32 cargo ship launched to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan, SpaceX launched the first flight of a stretched Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo ship to the Station for an additional delivery of supplies.
The Cygnus XL cargo ship, named S.S. William C. “Willie” McCool after the pilot of Columbia on STS-107, successfully launched atop a Falcon 9 on the NG-23 mission on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC).