Tag: ISS
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Boeing, NASA teams give Starliner final go for OFT-2 mission
NASA, Boeing, and ULA teams, along with international partners, have finished the agency Flight Readiness Review (FRR) ahead of the Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Following the valve issues that scrubbed OFT-2’s launch attempt in August of 2021 and the communication and software issues that caused Boeing’s first OFT mission to…
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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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Russian cosmonauts conduct second spacewalk to activate European Robotic Arm
On April 28, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev ventured outside the International Space Station in the second planned spacewalk to activate the European Robotic Arm (ERA). This follows last week’s spacewalk, where astronauts removed covers from the arm and installed a control panel. The spacewalk is known as VKD-53 began at 14:58 UTC.…
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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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Crew-4 mission to ISS begins with pre-dawn liftoff
The fourth SpaceX Commercial Crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on Wednesday, April 27 at 03:52 Eastern Daylight Time (07:52 UTC), using Falcon 9 B1067-4 for the first flight of Crew Dragon C212, also known as Freedom. Crew-4, the seventh flight of the Crew Dragon vehicle with people on board, flew…
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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…
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Cosmonauts complete spacewalk to activate space station’s European Robotic Arm
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev carried out a spacewalk on April 18 to prepare the International Space Station’s new European Robotic Arm for use. The cosmonauts exited the Poisk module’s airlock at around 15:00 UTC and spent over six and a half hours working outside the station to complete their objectives, completing the…
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Axiom-1 arrives at ISS for science-packed week on orbit
Crew Dragon Endeavour has successfully docked to the Node-2 zenith port — otherwise called the Harmony space-facing port — at 8:29 am EDT (12:29 UTC) after launching at 11:17 am EDT (15:17 UTC) the previous day. Docking was delayed for nearly 45 minutes due to an issue with a video uplink to the ISS while…
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Axiom-1 launches first ever private crewed mission to ISS
SpaceX and Axiom Space launched the AX-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 11:17:11 am EDST / 15:17:11 UTC from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first private crewed mission to the station is using the Crew Dragon Endeavour, flying its third mission, and will…