On October 24, 2022 at 01:45 Moscow time the Russian “Progress MS-19” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. In about 4 hours it was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On October 16, 2022 American astronaut Lodewijk van den Berg passed away. He was 90. He performed one space flight by US Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51B in 1985.

On October 14, 2022 at 20:56 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Crew-4 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville.

The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 68: US astronauts Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. They spent in space 170 days, 13 hours and 03 minutes.

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On October 14, 2022 at 16:05 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Crew-4 mission) spacecraft undocked from zenith docking port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 members of Expedition 68: US astronauts Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.

On October 13, 2022 American astronaut James Alton McDivitt passed away. He was 93. He performed 2 space flights. He commanded the “Gemini-4” mission, during which Edward White performed the first US spacewalk, and later the “Apollo-9” spacecraft, which was the first crewed flight test of the Apollo lunar module and the complete set of Apollo flight hardware.

On October 6, 2022 at 21:07 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endurance” (Crew-5 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The mission also known as USCV-5 (US Crew Vehicle 5). The spacecraft delivered US astronauts Nicole Mann and astronaut Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the ISS. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 68 members - Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, Samantha Cristoforetti, Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio.

On October 5, 2022 at 16:00 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endurance” (Crew-5 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The mission also known as USCV-5 (US Crew Vehicle 5). The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier.

The spacecraft is piloted by 4 astronauts – spacecraft commander American astronaut Nicole Mann; pilot, American astronaut Josh Cassada; mission specialist 1, Japanese astr ... Read more »

On September 30, 2022 the “Wentian” module was undocked from the axial front port of the “Tianhe” core module with the mechanical robotic arm. At 05:44 UTC the “Wentian” module was docked to the to a starboard (lateral) port of the “Tianhe” core module. It was for the first time when China used the mechanical robotic arm to complete the relocation of modules at large scale.

On September 29, 2022 at 10:57 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-21” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 148 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 67 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov. They spent in space 194 days, 19 hours and 2 minutes.

Seven other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin; US astronauts Francisco Rubio, Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins; Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 68 crew. The undocking of Soyuz MS-21 marked th ... Read more »

On September 29, 2022 at 07:24 UTC, the Russian “Soyuz MS-21” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 67 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.