 Japanese HTV-4 cargo spacecraft arrived at space station.
On August 09, 2013 at 15:38 UTC the 4th Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV "Kounotori-4”) was installed on its berthing port of the "Harmony” module of the International Space Station.
Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg, with the assistance of Flight Engineer Christopher Cassidy, initially grappled the HTV-4 with the station’s Canadian robot arm at 11:22 UTC as the Japanese spacecraft flew within about 10 meters of the ISS. Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano (Italy) joined the two NASA astronauts in the cupola to monitor the systems of the Japanese spacecraft during its approach.
After equalizing pressures between the cargo spacecraft and the station, the crew is scheduled to open the hatches on August 10 and begin the process of removing the supplies from the Kounotori’s pressurized logistics carrier.
The HTV-4 unmanned supply spacecraft delivered to the station about 3.6 tons of science experiments, eq
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Japan launched a resupply spacecraft to space station.
On August 03, 2013 at 19:48 UTC the Japanese HTV-4 (H-2 Transfer Vehicle) unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Tanegashima Cosmodrome situated at the island located 115 km south of Kyushu. Kyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.
The spacecraft was orbited by the Japanese H-2B rocket-carrier.
The mission is Japan's fourth cargo delivery flight to the International Space station.
The HTV 4 mission is also named Kounotori 4. Kounotori is the Japanese word for white stork.
The spacecraft is to deliver about 5400 kilograms of cargo to the station’s crew.
The docking with the ISS is to be performed on August 09, 2013.
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Russian “Progress M-20M” spacecraft docked to Space Station.
On July 28, 2013 at 02:26 UTC the Russian "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module. The spacecraft carried 2366 kilograms of cargo for the six-member ISS crew.
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Russia launched “Progress M-20M” spacecraft to Space Station.
On July 27, 2013 at 20:45 UTC (on July 28 at 00:45 Moscow time) the "Progress M-20M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier.
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Progress M-18M mission completed.
On July 25, 2013 at 20:44 UTC the "Progress M-18M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian "Pirs” (Pier) module of the International Space Station. At 23:53 UTC the spacecraft’s engines were started for deorbiting. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 00:42 UTC on July 26.
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US and Italian astronauts performed a spacewalk.
On July 09, 2013 American astronaut Christopher Cassidy and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano performed a spacewalk. The hatch of the "Quest” module was opened at 12:02 UTC. The spacewalks carried out a variety of maintenance and installation tasks. They spent six hours and seven minutes outside the International Space Station. It was Parmitano's first spacewalk, making him the first Italian astronaut to walk in space, and the 5th EVA for Cassidy.
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Shenzhou-10 spacecraft returned to Earth.
On June 26, 2013 at 00:07 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-10” landing capsule landed safely at the designated area in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 Chinese cosmonauts - two male, one female. Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping were in good shape after landing.
During their mission in space, the cosmonauts docked twice with the Tiangong-1 space station, which had been in orbit since September 2011.  Cosmonauts (from left to right) Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping salute after returning to earth in the re-entry capsule of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.
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Shenzhou-10 undocked from Tiangong-1 module.
On June 25, 2013 at 7:05 a.m. Beijing Time the Chinese "Shenzhou-10” manned spacecraft undocked from the "Tiangong-1” module.
Following a separation from the Tiangong-1, the Shenzhou-10 moved back to a point from where the spacecraft changed its orbit and flew around the target module.
Under the command of ground-based professionals, Shenzhou-10 adjusted its flight gesture at a point behind Tiangong-1, and approached and rendezvoused with the target module.
Earlier, the three astronauts, Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, closed the hatches between the "Shenzhou-10” and the "Tiangong-1” and moved back to the return capsule of the Shenzhou-10 at around 5 a.m., after collecting experimental equipment and items inside the target module with the coordination of ground staff.
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Russian Cosmonauts performed a spacewalk.
On June 24, 2013 Russian Cosmonauts Fjodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin performed a 6 hours and 34 minutes spacewalk.
The hatches were opened at 13:32 UTC. The cosmonauts conducted extravehicular activity to prepare for the addition of a new Russian module later in 2013. Misurkin made his first spacewalk this time, whereas for Yurchikhin, it was his sixth EVA.
The cosmonauts replaced an aging fluid flow control panel on the International Space Station’s Zarya module as preventative maintenance on the cooling system for the station’s Russian segment.
They also installed clamps for future power cables to get ready for swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The "Roscosmos” Russian Federal Space Agency is expected to launch a research facility, airlock and docking port late in 2013
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Progress M-19M mission completed.
On June 19, 2013 the "Progress M-19M” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 13:39 UTC. The spacecraft was undocked from the ISS on June 11, 2013.
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