NG-15 S.S. Katherine Johnson Cygnus capture

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the S.S. Katherine Johnson, was captured with the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 by JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins acting as a backup, on 22 February 2021, at 09:38 UTC (04:38 EST). The NG-15 Cygnus Cargo Delivery Spacecraft is named in honor of Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician that delivered calculations that were critical to the success of numerous human spaceflight missions. Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman Music: Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky courtesy of YouTube Audio Library