SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the East coast of the US, at 1600 GMT on 5 October. The vehicle was bearing Crew Dragon which carried the Crew 5 human astronaut mission. It was the fifth operational crewed...
Shenzhou 14’s mission commander Chen Dong, and crew member Liu Yang began their first spacewalk after opening the airlock cabin of the Chinese Experiment Module 1 Wentian at 1026 GMT on 1 September. Fellow astronaut Cai Xuzhe provided support work from within...
SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-25 successfully undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 1505 GMT on 19 August. The uncrewed CRS-25 resupply spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at...
ISS Commander Oleg Artemyev and fellow Roscosmos Cosmonaut Denis Matveev began their six and half hour scheduled extravehicular activity (EVA) when they opened the Poisk module airlock at 1353 GMT on 17 August. However, all did not go well. The cosmonaut pair’s...
China’s experiment module I (Wentian) has successfully docked with the Chinese Space Station to become a permanent part of it. The module – the first lab module of the Chinese space station – was launched on a Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket from Wenchang Satellite...
Russian cosmonaut and ISS Commander Oleg Artemyev and ESA astronaut Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti made a spacewalk together on 21 July. This was the sixth excursion outside the ISS so far this year and a rare Russian/European joint EVA (Extra Vehicular...
