Private Cygnus Spacecraft's Launch Delayed Again by Bad Weather

Bad weather foiled the launch attempt of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft Friday (Dec. 4), delaying the cargo ship's return-to-flight mission for the second day in a row. The unmanned Cygnus spaceship was slated to launch into space atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket at 5:33 p.m. EST (2233 GMT) on Friday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, but strong winds forced mission controllers to give up at the end of the 30-minute window. "The winds were just a couple of k