The Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 5 (Endurance) – safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, USA on 12 March at 0202 GMT. After an automated 11 minute de-orbit burn the craft re-entered and deployed its main chutes at an...
The uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was successfully launched onboard a Soyuz 2-1A from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 0024 GMT on 24 February 2023. Soyuz MS-23, a replacement for the coolant-leak damaged Soyuz MS-22, is expected to...
At 1030 GMT on 3 February 2023, the cargo craft Progress MS-20 fired its engines for a 1.4m/s to boost itself and the attached International Space Station to 424 x 412 km. Four days later, having been loaded with garbage, at 0456 GMT on 7 February, the Progress MS-20...
On 2 February 2023, after the Quest airlock was depressurised, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata opened the hatch at 1245 GMT, 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Their mission objective was to complete the construction of a mounting platform on...
While action film actor Tom Cruise has his detractors, you cannot say he is not successful. Recently starring in the Top Gun – Maverick, the long awaited successor to the Top Gun (1986) film that originally made him a major star, he is credited with bringing...
On 20 January 2023 JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann opened the Quest airlock hatch at 1312 GMT. The astronauts switched their spacesuits to internal battery power to begin their spacewalk at 1314 GMT. Their objective was to install another...
