On August 6, 2024, the US "Cygnus” CRS-21 (NG-21, the S.S. Francis R. "Dick" Scobee) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 07:11 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 09:33 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station.

On August 4, 2024 at 15:02 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (LC40), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” NG-21 (the S.S. Francis R. "Dick" Scobee) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman under the Commercial Resupply Services II (CRS-2) contract with NASA, was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services.

On July 13, 2024 at 15:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited.

On July 12, 2024 at 8:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. After that, the spacecraft, was released by using the “Canadarm-2” orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 11:01 UTC.

Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Henry Engle died on July 10, 2024 at his home in Houston. He performed 2 space flights. Among his many honors, he is the only astronaut to pilot both the X-15 and space shuttle. He was 91.

U.S. spacewalk was cancelled on June 24, 2024 due to a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit (SCU) on Tracy Dyson's spacesuit.

Tracy Dyson and Michael Barratt set their suits to battery power at 12:46 UTC and opened the hatch to the space station's Quest airlock before reporting the water issue.

"Oh my goodness," said Tracy Dyson. "Water is flowing out of my SCU guys."

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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.