On April 15, 2022 at 16:44 UTC, the Chinese "Shenzhou-13” manned spacecraft undocked from Chinese “Tianhe” core module of the new space station to deliver to Earth the 3 cosmonauts – Zhai Zhigang (翟志刚), Wang Yaping (王亚平) ... Read more »

On April 09, 2022 at 12:32 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Axiom-1 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered US astronaut Michael López-Alegría and 3 flight participants (space tourists): Larry Connor from the United States, Eytan Stibbe from Israel and Mark Pathy from Canada to the ISS. The new comers were welcomed by the current ISS Expedition 67 members – Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Matthias Maurer, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.

On April 8, 2022 at 15:17 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Axiom-1 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier. There were 4 crew members onboard the Crew Dragon – Commander, Michael López-Alegría, a US citizen and retired NASA astronaut as well as three wealthy paying passengers (Eytan Stibbe from Israel, Larry Connor from the United States, and Mark Pathy from Canada). ... Read more »

Canadian astronaut Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason passed away on April 5, 2022. He performed 1 space flights by Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-85) in August 1997. He was 76 years old.

On March 31, 2022 at 18:40 Beijing time, the Chinese “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.