 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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50th Anniversary of the 1st woman space flight.
50 years ago on June 16, 1963 Soviet woman-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova began her 3-day space flight on board the "Vostok-6” spacecraft. It was the first world space flight performed by a woman. FIP Section for Astrophilately marked this event by organizing together with German philatelists the "Astrophil-2013” international philatelic exhibition in Berlin. To see photo repo
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European supply spacecraft arrived at International Space Station.
On June 15, 2013 at 14:07 UTC the European ATV-4 "Albert Einstein” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the Russian "Zvezda” ("Star”) module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered seven tons of fuel and supplies for the station's six-person crew.
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Shenzhou-10 docked with space module.
On June 13, 2013 at 05:18 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-10” manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the "Tiangong-1” space module. Three Chinese cosmonauts (Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang, Wang Yaping) aboard the "Shenzhou-10” monitored and reported the docking operation to the control center.
The docking procedure was the fifth to take place between Shenzhou-type spacecraft and the space module. Previous dockings include two automated operations by the unmanned Shenzhou-8 in 2011 and both an automated and manual docking by the manned Shenzhou-9 in 2012.
At the same day at 08:17 UTC the hatches between the spacecraft and the "Tiangong-1” module was opened and the cosmonauts entered the space module to carry out scientific and technical experiments.
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Russian “Progress” spacecraft undocked from the Space Station.
On June 11, 2013 at 13:58 UTC the Russian "Progress M-19M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian "Zvezda” ("Star”) module of the International Space Station for a weeklong flight to study the operation of its liquid-propellant engines in the ionosphere, which spans from 50 to 250 miles above the Earth’s surface. The deorbiting of "Progress M-19M” is to be performed on June 19.
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