On May 28, 2024 Chinese cosmonauts Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu performed the spacewalk to install of micrometeorite shields and to inspect equipment outside the spacecraft with precise coordination. The EVA lasted 8 hours and 23 minutes. It was the 2^nd spacewalk for Ye Guangfu and the 1^st spacewalk for Li Guangsu.

Soviet cosmonaut Vjacheslav Dmitrievich Zudov passed away on June 12, 2024. He was 82 years old. He performed 1 space flight.

American astronaut William Alison Anders died in a plane crash on June 7, 2024. He piloted a single-engine Beechcraft T-34 Mentor aircraft, performing aerobatic maneuvers on it. Without breaking out of the loop, the plane crashed into the water off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90 years old. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon. During one of the mission's lunar orbits, he took the iconic Earthrise photograph.

After multiple helium leaks and thruster problems, on June 6, 2024 at 17:33 UTC, the US Boeing CST-100 Starliner “Calypso” (Boe-CFT mission) spacecraft docked with the forward docking port of the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered US astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the ISS. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 71 members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin.

On June 5, 2024 at 14:52 UTC the US Boeing CST-100 Starliner “Calypso” (Boe-CFT mission) spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (SLC41), Florida, USA. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 45^th Space Wing of US Air Force and NASA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Atlas-5” rocket-carrier.

The spacecraft is piloted by 2 astronauts – spacecraft commander, US astronaut Barry Wilmore and pilot, US astronaut Sunita Williams. CFT (Crew Flight Test) is the second mission for th ... Read more »

On June 1, 2024 at 14:43 Moscow time, the Russian “Progress MS-27” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Poisk” module. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew.

On May 30, 2024 at 12:42 Moscow time, the “Progress MS-27” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier.

On May 28, 2024 at 08:39 UTC the Russian “Progress MS-25” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. At the same day, the spacecraft was deorbited and burnt down in atmosphere.

On May 2, 2024 the Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-8 mission) spacecraft was redocked from the forward docking port of the “Harmony” module to the zenith docking port of the “Harmony” of the International Space Station. During the redocking (12:57 – 13:46 UTC) the crew consisted of US astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps as well as Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. The crew relocated the Crew Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft to clear the way for arrival of Boeing CST-100 Starliner (Boe-CFT mission) spacecraft.

On April 30, 2024 at 09:46 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-17” landing capsule landed safely at the designated area of the Dongfeng landing site in the Gobi Desertin, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 Chinese cosmonauts – Tang Hongbo (汤洪波), Tang Shengjie (唐胜杰), Jiang Xinlin (江新林). The cosmonauts spent in space 187 days, 06 hours and 32 minutes. The “Shenzhou-17” mission was the 12^th crewed spaceflight in China’s space program, and the 6^th crew mis ... Read more »