 Russia launched Soyuz TMA-15M manned spacecraft.
On November 23, 2014 at 21:01 UTC (on November 24 at 00:01 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-15M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center); flight-engineer, Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti (right); American astronaut Terry Virts (left).
Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on November 24. Shkaplerov, Christoforetti and Virts will join current ISS expediti
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Progress M-24M mission completed.
On November 19, 2014 at 23:00 UTC (on November 20 at 02:00 Moscow time) the “Progress M-24M” spacecraft were deorbiting. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 23:46 UTC.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft landed.
On November 10, 2014 at 03:58 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-13M” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of 85 kilometers north from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
photo by NASA
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 41 – Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, American astronaut Gregory Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. They spent in space 165 days, 07 hours, 01 minutes.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyaev and Elena Serova as well as American astro
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Russian Soyuz TMA-13M undocked from ISS.
On November 10, 2014 at 00:31 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-13M” spacecraft undocked from the Russian "Rassvet” (MIM-1) module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 41 – Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, American astronaut Gregory Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. |
Russian “Progress M-25M” spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On October 29, 2014 at 13:08 UTC the Russian “Progress M-25M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Pirs” (Pier) module. The spacecraft carried about 2400 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.
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Cygnus spacecraft blew up during the launch.
On October 28, 2014, at 22:22 UTC the “Cygnus” unmanned spacecraft blew up during the launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island off the U.S. east coast, Va., USA. The "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was supposed to deliver more than 2 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
The “Cygnus” (CRS Orb-3,also known as Orbital Sciences CRS Flight 3 or Orbital 3), was supposed to be orbited by the Antares-130 rocket-carrier also built by Orbital Sciences Corp.
This flight, which would have been its fourth to the International Space Station and the fifth of an Antares launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff.
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Progress M-24M undocked from ISS.
On October 27, 2014 at 05:38 UTC the “Progress M-24M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian “Pirs” (Pier) module of the International Space Station. Since November 02 till November 19 the spacecraft will be used in the “Otrazhenie (Reflection)” scientific experiment. The spacecraft is to be deorbited on November 20, 2014.
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Dragon CRS-4 supply spacecraft returned to Earth.
On October 25, 2014 the station's robotic arm removed the “Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft from a berthing port on the Harmony module of the International Space Station. Controlled by ground controllers and then astronaut Gregory Wiseman, the robotic arm let go of the "Dragon” resupply vehicle at 13:57 UTC.
On October 25, 2014 at 19:38 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at about 489 kilometers west of Baja California, Mexico.
The Dragon delivered to Earth about 1500 kilograms (3276 pounds) of cargo.
It was the "SpaceX CRS-4” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services.
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Russian cosmonauts performed successful spacewalk.
On October 22, 2014 Russian cosmonauts Maksim Suraev and Aleksandr Samokutyaev performed the spacewalk to jettison three no-longer-needed components and carry out a photo survey of the Russian segment of the lab complex. The hatch of the “Pirs” module was opened at 13:24 UTC. The cosmonauts also removed a cover from a materials science space exposure experiment package, stowed it in the Pirs airlock and made their way to the Poisk module atop Zvezda where the Soyuz TMA-14M ferry craft is docked.
The EVA lasted 3 hours and 41 minutes. This was the 184th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998, and the second spacewalk for both Suraev and Samokutyaev.
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