Antares Rocket Prepared For Launch To Space Station

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - OCTOBER 23: In this handout provided by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Orb-3 missions payload fairing (essentially the casing around the spacecraft) was installed on Orbital Sciences Corp.s Antares rocket on October 23, 2014, in preparation for launch to the International Space Station, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The spacecraft is mated to the company's Antares rocket. This mission is the third of eight Orbital flights NASA contracted with the company to resupply the space station, and the fourth trip by a Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS. Cygnus will transport some 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the orbiting laboratory. (Photo by Patrick Black/NASA via Getty Images)