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Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a member of the media photographs the Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized module during a viewing event. The Cygnus spacecraft will carry more than 7,000 pounds of cargo on the next resupply flight to the International Space Station. The unpiloted Cygnus will be Orbital ATK’s fourth cargo mission to the space station for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. Cygnus is undergoing prelaunch processing at Kennedy before launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket scheduled for December 3 from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.