HOUSTON – A spacecraft packed with supplies for the astronauts on the International Space Station won’t arrive as planned on Wednesday after NASA said there was a problem with an engine burn needed to get the Cygnus spacecraft to the station.

On Sunday, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft launched to the space station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida . The spacecraft is filled with 11,000 pounds of science experiments, research supplies and food for the orbiting laboratory.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim was set to capture Cygnus at 6:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday using the Canadarm2 with NASA astronaut Zena Cardman as backup support. However, early on Tuesday morning, as the spacecraft was completing a series of two burns designed to raise its orbit for rendezvous with

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