With more than a tad of embarrassment, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine had to admit that the first launch of the first commercial crew-carrying spacecraft, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, had not gone to plan. While the spacecraft was launched as planned to a near...
Launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1729 GMT, 5 December 2019, a Falcon 9 rocket has carried the Dragon CRS-19 (CRS1-19) mission to the ISS. This mission was part of the Commercial ReSupply 1 (CRS1) contract between SpaceX and NASA. The Dragon capsule was...
Russia successfully launched the Progress MS-13 unmanned cargo spacecraft on a Soyuz 2-1A at 0934 GMT on 6 December from the Baikonur Space Centre near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The Progress MS-13 is a resupply mission will be taking supplies to the International Space...
On 2 December 2019, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan conducted an EVA (Spacewalk) exiting the Quest Airlock of the ISS at 1131 GMT. The crew completed the primary task to install upgraded tracker thermal pump system (UTTPS) into the AMS-2...
While the overall International Space Station (ISS) is so large that an individual science instrument is relatively insignificant – such was the importance of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS-2) – worth US$2 billion – that a series of...
While a previous all-female spacewalk attempt was cancelled – ostensibly due to wrong spacesuit sizes but possibly due to one team member, Anne McClean, being accused of fraud – an all-female extra vehicular activity (EVA) has finally taken place. Christina Koch and...
