Northrop Grumman NG-23 Cygnus XL Cargo Spacecraft Arrives At The ISS

Northrop Grumman’s CRS-23 Cygnus XL spacecraft, dubbed S.S. William “Willie” McCool, was captured with the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 by NASA astronauts Jonny Kim and Zena Cardman, on 18 September 2025, at 1124 UTC. For NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) NG-23 mission, the Cygnus XL spacecraft delivers more than 4989 kg of supplies to the ISS. The NG-23 Cygnus XL Cargo Delivery Spacecraft is named after the former NASA astronaut William “Willie” McCool