On October 5, 2022 at 16:00 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endurance” (Crew-5 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The mission also known as USCV-5 (US Crew Vehicle 5). The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier.

The spacecraft is piloted by 4 astronauts – spacecraft commander American astronaut Nicole Mann; pilot, American astronaut Josh Cassada; mission specialist 1, Japanese astr ... Read more »

On September 30, 2022 the “Wentian” module was undocked from the axial front port of the “Tianhe” core module with the mechanical robotic arm. At 05:44 UTC the “Wentian” module was docked to the to a starboard (lateral) port of the “Tianhe” core module. It was for the first time when China used the mechanical robotic arm to complete the relocation of modules at large scale.

On September 29, 2022 at 10:57 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-21” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 148 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 67 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov. They spent in space 194 days, 19 hours and 2 minutes.

Seven other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin; US astronauts Francisco Rubio, Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins; Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 68 crew. The undocking of Soyuz MS-21 marked th ... Read more »

On September 29, 2022 at 07:24 UTC, the Russian “Soyuz MS-21” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 67 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.