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[b]S.S. Roger Chaffee Attached to Station[/b] At 5:28 a.m. EDT (0928 GMT) on Friday (April 19), Expedition 59 flight engineer Anne McClain of NASA used the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft S.S. Roger Chaffee as David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency monitored Cygnus systems during its approach. The Cygnus was then bolted into place on the Earth-facing port of the station's Unity module at 7:31 a.m. EDT (1131 GMT). The spacecraft's arrival brings close to 7,600 pounds of research and supplies to space station. The S.S. Roger Chaffee will remain at the space station until July 23, when the spacecraft will depart the station, deploy NanoRacks customer CubeSats and then have an extended mission of nine months before it will dispose of several tons of trash during a fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.
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