On June 29, 2023 at 16:30 UTC, the Dragon CRS-28 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station.

On June 22, 2023, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk) to retrieve several experiment packages and to install communications equipment on “Zvezda” and “Poisk” modules. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 24 minutes. It was the 7^th EVA for Sergey Prokopyev and the 5^th EVA for Dmitry Petelin. It was the 170^th EVA performed by Soviet/Russian cosmonauts since 1965.

On June 15, 2023, US astronauts Steven Bowen and Warren Hoburg performed the spacewalk to install an iROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1B power channel on the starboard truss. The EVA lasted 5 hours and 35 minutes. It was the 10^th spacewalk for Steven Bowen and the 2^nd spacewalk for Warren Hoburg.

On June 09, 2023, US astronauts Steven Bowen and Warren Hoburg performed the spacewalk to install an upgraded iROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1A power channel on the starboard truss of the station. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 3 minutes. It was the 9^th spacewalk for Steven Bowen and the 1^st spacewalk for Warren Hoburg.

On June 5, 2023 at 19:10 UTC (on June 6 Beijing time), the Chinese “Tianzhou-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the forward docking port of the “Tianhe” core module of the Chinese “Tiangong” space station after more than a month of independent flying. The cargo spacecraft undocked from “Tiangong” on May 05, 2023 to leave room for its successor, “Tianzhou-6”. It had been flying freely for 33 days before the re-docking.

On June 6, 2023 at 09:54 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-28 (CRS-28 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station (Harmony zenith docking port).

On June 5, 2023 at 15:47 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-28 flight also known as SpX-28) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

On June 3, 2023 at 22:33 UTC (on June 4 by Beijing time) the Chinese "Shenzhou-15” 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 – Fei Junlong (费俊龙), Deng Qingming (邓清明), Zhang Lu (张鹭). The cosmonauts spent in space 186 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. The “Shenzhou-15” mission was the 10^th crewed spaceflight in China’s space program, and the 4^th crew mission to China’s new &l ... Read more »

On June 3, 2023 at 13:29 UTC, the Chinese "Shenzhou-15” manned spacecraft undocked from the “Tiangong/Shenzhou-16” space complex to deliver to Earth the 3 cosmonauts – Fei Junlong (费俊龙), Deng Qingming (邓清明), Zhang Lu (张鹭). Three other crew members of the “Tiangong” space station – Chinese cosmonauts Jing Haipeng (景海鹏), Zhu Yangzhu (朱 ... Read more »

On May 31, 2023 at 03:04 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-2 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Panama City, Florida. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth US astronaut Peggy Whitson; US commercial astronaut John Shoffner; Saudi Arabian astronaut Ali AlQarni (علي القرني); Saudi Arabian woman-astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi (ريانة برناوي). They spent in space 9 days, 5 hours and 27 minutes. It was the 2^nd flight of the Crew Dragon “Freedom” capsule (Dragon capsule C212). The appropriately named Ax-2 mission was the second commercial station visit chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space private incorporated company.

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