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Northrop Grumman has named its next Cygnus cargo spacecraft after NASA astronaut Laurel Clark, who was killed in the space shuttle Columbia tragedy in 2003.
She set sail as a research vessel, shipped out as postage stamp and stood tall as a monument. Now, America s first woman in space is set to return to orbit as the namesake of a station cargo capsule.
A British-American climate scientist who launched on three missions to the International Space Station is being honored with the naming of a U.S. commercial spacecraft bound for the orbiting complex.
"Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom and doesn't get a little worried does not fully understand the situation."
-John Young, after being asked if he was worried about making the first Space Shuttle flight (STS-1).