On April 19, 2019, the American "Cygnus” CRS-11 (NG-11 “S.S. Roger Chaffee”) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by American astronaut Anne McClain inside the space station at 09:28 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 11:31 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3800 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 11^th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS.

On April 17, 2019 at 20:46 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, USA. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Antares-230” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” CRS-11 (NG-11 “S.S. Roger Chaffee”) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. The "Cygnus” CRS-11 (NG-11 “S.S. Roger Chaffee”) is the 11^th successful flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus. ... Read more »

On April 15, 2019 American astronaut Owen Kay Garriott passed away at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 88. Owen Garriott flew aboard the US “Skylab” space station during the “Skylab-3” mission and on the Space Shuttle Columbia (the STS-9/Spacelab-1 mission). He spent a total of 70 days in space.