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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
But the freighter may not be grounded forever.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The risk of a catastrophic collision was nearly 50 times greater for the support column that the Dali freighter hit early in the morning after the cargo ship lost power and control, Homendy said on Thursday.
—Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
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Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
But the freighter may not be grounded forever.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The risk of a catastrophic collision was nearly 50 times greater for the support column that the Dali freighter hit early in the morning after the cargo ship lost power and control, Homendy said on Thursday.
—Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Freighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freighter. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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freighter
noun
freight·er
ˈfrāt-ər 
1
: a person who carries or ships freight
2
: a ship or airplane used chiefly to carry freight
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