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This will be a busy week for rocket launches, with crewed launches of China’s Shenzhou 11 mission Sunday night, and Russia’s Soyuz flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday morning. But perhaps the most intriguing launch this week will not carry any people at all.
That’s because, when Orbital ATK’s revamped Antares rocket takes flight from the Virginia coast as early as Sunday night, the stakes will be high both for the company and NASA. The last time Orbital’s Antares launched, its flight ended in a spectacular conflagration just above the launch pad. And with NASA’s other US-based provider of supplies to the space station, SpaceX, currently standing down while it investigates its own accident, astronauts need the food and water launching Sunday.
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