Tag: ISS
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Dragon Resilience returns to Earth, completing first operational Commercial Crew mission
NASA and SpaceX teams have returned NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth, completing the historic Crew-1 mission. Crew Dragon Resilience splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:57 AM EDT (06:57 UTC) on…
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Roscosmos discusses ISS withdrawal strategy and new space station for mid-2020s
Recently, Russian authorities began talking about a potential withdrawal from the International Space Station (ISS) project in 2025. In place of ISS, the Russian space industry would gain ROSS – a new orbital station that’s name stands for Russian Orbital Service Station. According to Roscosmos representatives, the withdrawal from the ISS will be gradual, which…
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Crew Dragon Endeavour returns to station on Crew-2 mission
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Meghan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japanese Space Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide have joined the Expedition 64 crew as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour docked successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) at 5:08 AM EDT (09:08 UTC) on Saturday 24 April. Crew-2 is the first crewed…
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Soyuz MS-18 launch marks 60 years of human spaceflight
The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, carrying three new members for Expeditions 64 and 65, launched to the International Space Station at 07:42 UTC, which is 03:42 EDT or 12:42 local time at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 9. The launch came three days before the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s groundbreaking orbital flight when…
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SpaceX and NASA entering final preparations for Crew-2 launch
With launch now just a few weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations for the second operational Crew Dragon mission. This will be SpaceX’s second long-duration crew rotation for NASA as a part of the Commercial Crew program. Crew-2 will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from historic…
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ISS shuffles docking ports ahead of busy schedule
Soyuz MS-17 has relocated to a new docking port in preparation for a spree of upcoming vehicle arrivals at the International Space Station. The relocation ensures that a Russian spacewalk in June can proceed, which will prepare the station for its first major addition in a decade. Soyuz schedule Soyuz MS-17 arrived at the ISS…
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EVA-73 concludes, continuing Station maintenance & upgrade tasks
Two NASA astronauts, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins, have completed the latest Extravehicular Activity (EVA, or spacewalk) accomplishing several tasks deferred from a series of spacewalks conducted so far this year. The duo began U.S. EVA-73 at 08:14 EST/13:14 UTC when they took their spacesuits to battery power before exiting the Quest Airlock. It concluded…
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Station power upgrade preparations continued with EVA-72
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) conducted a spacewalk to continue the process of increasing the Station’s electrical power generation output. U.S. EVA-72 was conducted by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who officially began the sojourn at 06:37 EST/11:37 UTC. The spacewalk ended with the major…
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Spacewalk successfully begins process of increasing Space Station’s power capacity
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) conducted a spacewalk to begin the process of increasing the station’s electrical power generation output. The spacewalk, US EVA-71, was conducted by NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover, who officially began the sojourn at 06:12 EST/11:12 UTC and completed it 7 hours 04 minutes later at…
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Northrop Grumman’s S.S. Katherine Johnson arrives at the ISS
Northrop Grumman kicked off their 2021 launch manifest with the flight of an Antares rocket delivering the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia at 12:36:50 EST (17:36:50 UTC) Saturday, 20 February 2021. The spacecraft then conducted a rendezvous with the Station…