Tag: Expedition 67
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Expedition 67 in final stretch as European Robotic Arm commissioning continues
July saw Expedition 67 aboard the International Space Station reach two-thirds distance, with two months remaining until its longest-serving crewmembers return home and the rest of the crew transitions to the next increment. Over the course of the month, the crew has been continuing scientific research and housekeeping tasks around the station, while also receiving…
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Space botany, cargo arrivals, and autonomous robots: a busy June on the ISS
June 2022 was yet another busy month on the International Space Station (ISS), filled with new spacecraft arrivals, departures, and intriguing research performed by the Expedition 67 crew. The month kicked off with the departure of the Russian Progress MS-18 (also known as 79P) cargo resupply vehicle from the ISS. Progress undocked at 08:03 UTC…
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Starliner makes first docking with ISS on OFT-2 mission
A day into its OFT-2 mission, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station for the first time. Starliner’s docking, which marks a major milestone in Boeing’s demonstration flight for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, occurred at 8:28 PM EDT on Friday (00:28 UTC on Saturday). The Orbital Test Flight 2 (OFT-2) mission is…
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Starliner OFT-2 launch makes it to orbit, heading to ISS
Nine months after valve issues caused its previous launch attempt to be scrubbed, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has launched on its Orbital Flight Test 2 mission atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Thursday. OFT-2 departed Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral at 6:54:36 p.m. EDT (22:54 UTC), bound for the International Space Station…
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Russian spacewalks, visiting Dragons, and science: Expedition 67’s first month at the ISS
April marked Expedition 67’s first full month aboard the International Space Station, with the outpost’s crew receiving visitors in the form of the Axiom-1 mission before Crew Dragon Freedom arrived at the end of the month to begin a crew rotation on the US Orbital Segment. On the Russian side of the station, work to…
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Crew-3: Dragon Endurance return four astronauts to Earth
Crew Dragon Endurance has concluded the Crew-3 mission, returning astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and Matthias Maurer back to Earth after nearly six months in orbit. Endurance undocked from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony Module at 05:20 UTC (01:20AM EDT) on Thursday, before a splashdown on Friday at 04:43 UTC (00:43AM…
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Crew Dragon Freedom makes its first docking at the ISS on the Crew-4 mission
After a successful launch, Crew Dragon C212 Freedom docked to the International Space Station (ISS) at 23:37 UTC Wednesday (7:37 pm EDT on Wednesday). Flying the SpaceX Crew-4 mission, Dragon was launched on Wednesday and took a little over 16 hours to rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory. Crew-4, also known as United States Crew Vehicle…
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Historic Axiom-1 mission returned from ISS as Crew-4 prepares for launch
The first all-private astronaut mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom-1, has successfully returned to Earth. Crew Dragon Endeavour undocked from the station’s Node 2 zenith (or space-facing) docking port at 01:10 UTC Monday (9:10 PM EDT Sunday), with reentry and landing off the coast of Florida at 17:06 UTC Monday (1:06 PM…