A Russian cargo freighter was successfully launched on a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 0932 GMT on 3 June. The freighter, called Progress MS-20, was put on a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous path with the International Space Station...
With vicious fighting now occurring in the Donbass region of Ukraine three months into Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s space agency and conglomerate, Roskosmos, showed no shame using its rockets to proclaim its political messaging. It has...
NASA successfully launched an Atlas V N22/GEM-63 rocket, carrying Starliner OFT-2, from Cape Canaveral, USA, at 2254 GMT on 19 May – but not without some significant hiccups along the way. The launch which used a pair of GEM-63 solid rocket boosters (instead of the...
On 5 May 2022 at 0320 GMT, the NASA Crew 3 (Endurance) mission astronauts closed the hatch between their Crew Dragon craft and the International Space Station (ISS). Undocking was autonomous from the forward port of the ISS’s Harmony module at 0520 GMT....
On 28 April 2022 Expedition 67 Flight Engineers and Roscosmos Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev began their EVA (Russian spacewalk 53) when they exited the Poisk module airlock at 1458 GMT. Their mission was to continue activating the new European robotic arm...
It has been announced by her manufacturer Mattel that the girls doll Barbie, who has been dressing in space inspired clothes since the 1960s, is in space with her friend on the International Space Station (ISS). Her mission is as part of Mattel’s collaboration...
