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...
At 0752 GMT on 27 April a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the NASA Crew-4 mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and saw a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule start its journey to the ISS. This is the first launch of this...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the first privately crewed mission to the ISS from the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, at 1517 GMT on 8 April. The first stage of the Falcon 9 (B1062 on its fifth flight) successfully landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
