On June 20, 2021 American astronaut Robert Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to deploy and unroll a new solar array blanket. The EVA lasted about 6 hours and 30 minutes. It was the 8^th spacewalk for Robert Kimbrough and the 4^th spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.

On June 18, 2021 at 06:30 UTC the Chang Zheng-2C (Long March-2C) rocket-carrier was launched from Xichang Cosmodrome, Sichuan province, southwestern China. The rocket orbited three “Yaogan-30” military satellites. The Chinese government uses the Yaogan name for the country’s military satellites, and the “Yaogan-30” family is believed to be designed for a signals intelligence mission. The rocket also orbited the “Tianqi-14” small commercial data relay satellite for the Beijing-based company Guodian Gaoke.

On June 17, 2021 at 07:54 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-12” manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the Chinese “Tianhe” core module of the new space station. The “Tianhe” (天和 – “Harmony of the Heavens”), core module has four docking ports, unlike China's two previous space stations which had only one. The spacecraft delivered 3 Chinese cosmonauts to the station: Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, Tang Hongbo.

On June 17, 2021 at 01:22 UTC the "Shenzhou-12” (神舟十二号) manned spacecraft was launched from Chinese Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The space vehicle was orbited by the Chinese "Chang Zheng-2F” (Long March 2F 长征二号F运载火箭) rocket-carrier.

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On June 17, 2021 at 16:09 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by SpaceX company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited GPS-3 SV05 ‘Neil Armstrong’ navigation satellite.

On June 16, 2021 American astronaut Robert Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to attach a rolled-up solar array. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 15 minutes. It was the 7^th spacewalk for Robert Kimbrough and the 3^rd spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.