NG-11: S.S. Roger Chaffee Cygnus berthing

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the S.S. Roger Chaffee, was berthed to the International Space Station’s Unity module on 19 April 2019, at 11:31 UTC (07:31 EDT). Cygnus was captured with the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 by NASA astronaut Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, on 19 April 2019, at 09:28 UTC (05:28 EDT). The NG-11 Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft is named in honor of the American astronaut Roger Chaffe, the pilot of the Apollo 1 spac
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