On January 20, 2023, US astronaut Nicole Mann and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata performed the spacewalk to prepare the station for arrival of another pair of new solar arrays later this year. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 21 minutes. It was the 1^st spacewalk for both Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata.

On January 11, 2023 at 10:19 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Gulf Of Mexico not far from Florida, USA. It was the "SpaceX CRS-26” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the 6^th flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 26^th flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On January 09, 2023 at 22:05 UTC, the Dragon CRS-26 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. It’s the 6^th flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 26^th flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On January 3, 2023, US astronaut Ronnie Walter Cunningham passed away. He was 90. Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See). He was a lunar module pilot on the “Apollo-7” mission in 1968.

On December 22, 2022 American astronauts Josh Cassada and Francisco Rubio performed the spacewalk. The astronauts installed an IROSA (ISS Rollout Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 4A power channel on the station's port truss. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 08 minutes. It was the 3^rd spacewalk for both Josh Cassada and Francisco Rubio.

On 15 December 2022 at 12:45 UTC, a "visible stream of flakes" was observed emanating from the Soyuz spacecraft, concurrent with a loss of pressure in the external radiator cooling loop. The leak in the radiator occurred due to a micro-meteorite impact. The damage left a 0.8 mm diameter hole into the external cooling radiator on the service module. The “Soyuz MS-22” spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth with Prokopyev, Petelin, and Rubio on March 28. Until then, the spacecraft serves as the emergency lifeboat for the three-man crew that launched aboard it in September 2022. If Russian officials determine the “Soyuz MS-22” spacecraft is unable to bring the crew home, a replacement “Soyuz” could be launched from Baikonur without anyone on-board to automatically dock with the station. But it’s unclear when ... Read more »

Polish cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski passed away on December 12, 2022. He was 81 years old. Mirosław Hermaszewski was the first and only representative of Poland in space. He performed his flight together with the Soviet cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk as a research cosmonaut on board the “Soyuz-30” spacecraft and the “Salyut-6” orbital station. He spent 7 days 22 hours 2 minutes 59 seconds in space - from June 27 to July 5, 1978.

On December 11, 2022 at 17:40 UTC, the US “Orion” unpiloted spacecraft (Artemis-1 mission) splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California after 25-day moon mission. It was the roundtrip journey to the moon. While there were no humans on-board Artemis 1, the Orion spacecraft carried three instrumented mannequins inside its pressurized cabin to gather data on accelerations, vibrations, and radiation on the flight to the moon and back.