Live coverage: Space Station to capture, berth Cygnus XL ’S.S. Steven R. Nagel’ cargo spacecraft

The next cargo run to the International Space Station will arrive at the orbiting outpost midday on Monday. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft is expected to be captured by the Canadarm2 on the ISS around 12:50 p.m. EDT (1650 UTC). NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway will be at the controls of the robotic arm while fellow NASA astronaut Chris Williams monitors its arrival.

The vehicle launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, April 11, at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 UTC).

Station logistics stories rarely get the same attention as launches or crew flights, but they are what keep the orbital laboratory functioning day after day. A cargo mission is not finished when the supplies arrive; it also has to wrap up cleanly on the way out. That makes departure coverage useful, because it shows the back half of the logistics cycle that supports everything else happening aboard station.