On October 6, 2019 American astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan performed the spacewalk to begin replacing batteries on the far left side of the Station’s solar array truss. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 1 minute. It was the second spacewalk for both Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan.

On October 4, 2019 at 18:51 UTC the “Long March – 4C” (“Changzheng-4C”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The rocket orbited the “Gaofen-10” Earth-imaging satellite.

On October 3, 2019 at 11:00 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-12” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 2 members of Expedition 60 – Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and American astronauts Tyler «Nick» Hague as well as the “flight participant” Hazza Al Mansouri, the first cosmonaut of the United Arab Emirates. Ovchinin and Hague spent in space 203 days, Hazza Al Mansouri – 8 days. Six other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Skripochka; Italian astronaut Luca Pa ... Read more »

On October 3, 2019 at 07:37 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-12” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 2 members of Expedition 60 – Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and American astronauts Tyler «Nick» Hague as well as the “flight participant” Hazza Al Mansouri, the first cosmonaut of the United Arab Emirates.

On September 28, 2019 at 14:09 UTC the 8^th Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV "Kounotori-8”) was installed on its berthing port of the "Harmony” module of the International Space Station. American astronauts Christina Koch operating the Canadian-built arm, captured the HTV-8 “Kounotori” spacecraft at 11:12 UTC.

On September 26, 2019, Gennady Manakov, Soviet/Russian veteran cosmonaut, passed away at the age of 69. A retired cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union, Gennady Manakov, performed 2 space flights.

On September 26, 2019 at 07:46 UTC the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The rocket equipped with the “Fregat” booster orbited the “Kosmos-2541” satellite for the Russian military. The satellite is designed to detect missile launches. The satellite is likely the third EKS, or Tundra, missile warning satellites for the Russian military.

On September 25, 2019 at 19:43 UTC the Russian "Soyuz MS-15” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Zvezda” (“Star”) module of the International Space Station.

The spacecraft delivered 3 cosmonauts to the ISS: Russian Oleg Skripochka, American astronaut Jessica Meir and the first cosmonaut of the United Arab Emirates, Hazza Al Mansouri. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 60 members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Aleksandr Skvortsov; Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano; American astronauts Tyler «Nick» Hague, Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan. On 3 October, Hazza Al Mansouri together with Ovchinin and Hague will return to Earth by the “ ... Read more »

On September 25, 2019 at 13:57 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-15” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka (center); American astronaut Jessica Meir (right) and the first cosmonaut of the United Arab Emirates, Hazza Al Mansouri (left).

Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.

The “Soyuz MS-15” space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station in about 6 hours after the launch ... Read more »

On September 25, 2019, at 00:54 UTC the “Long March –2D” (“Changzheng-2D”) rocket-carrier was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, the northwest of China. The rocket orbited the “Yunhai-1” environmental monitoring satellite.

On September 24, 2019 at 16:05 UTC the Japanese HTV-8 (H-2 Transfer Vehicle) unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Tanegashima Cosmodrome situated at the island located 115 km south of Kyushu. Kyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. The spacecraft was orbited by the Japanese H-2B rocket-carrier. The mission is Japan's 8^th cargo delivery flight to the International Space station. The HTV-8 mission is also named Kounotori-8. Kounotori is the Japanese word for white stork. The spacecraft is to deliver about 5300 kilograms of cargo to the station’s crew.