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Inside the high bay in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crane lowers the Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module, in its protective covering, onto a transporter for its move to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Technicians help secure the module onto the transporter. The Cygnus spacecraft will carry nearly 6,000 pounds of cargo on the next resupply flight to the International Space Station. The Cygnus module is undergoing prelaunch processing at Kennedy before launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket scheduled for December 3 from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.