Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, carrying the Progress MS-18 freighter at 0000:32 GMT on 28 October. Progress MS-18 is a resupply vessel going to the International Space Station (ISS) carrying 1490 kg of general...
After a delay, the NASA mission control centre in Houston reported that the recently docked Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft had a longer than expected burn on 15 October during a test firing of its engines, which was only shut down when a propellant limit was reached. The...
While Star Trek TV and movie “Captain Kirk” actor William Shatner, 90, has been announced as planning to fly briefly into space above the Karman line limit of 100 km aboard Blue Origin’s suborbital New Glenn rocket, there are now real plans to film a...
Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA switched their spacesuits to battery power at 1215 GMT on 12 September to begin their spacewalk from the Quest airlock. During the mission the astronauts had to install a “mod kit” at the base of the 4A...
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began the second of their planned spacewalks as they continued the outfitting of the Nauka module. They opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1451 GMT on 9 September. Their...
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began their first of up to eleven planned spacewalks when they opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the ISS at 1441 GMT on 3 September. Their mission objective was to prepare the...
