On February 9, 2024 at 13:30 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Daytona, Florida. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt. They spent in space 21 days, 15 hours and 40 minutes. It was the first all-European commercial astronaut mission and Axiom Space’s third crewed mission to the ISS. 7 other ISS crew members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 70 crew members.

On February 7, 2024 at 14:20 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 persons: the spacecraft Commander, US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt.

On February 1, 2024, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S. S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 09:59 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 12:14 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station.

On January 30, 2024 at 17:07 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (LC40), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” NG-20 (the S. S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by Northrop Grumman under the Commercial Resupply Services II (CRS-2) contract with NASA, was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the first time a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Cygnus spacecraft for Northrop Grumman. The winding down of the use of Russian-made engines forced the retirement of the “Antares-230” rocket. This was also the first t ... Read more »

On January 20, 2024 at 10:44 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt to the ISS. The new comers were welcomed by the current ISS Expedition 70 members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov.

On January 19, 2024 at 12:37 UTC, the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On January 12, 2024 at 08:02 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the aft port of the Chinese “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Tiangong Space Station). It was switched to independent flight mode.

On January 18, 2024 at 21:49 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 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; pilot, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei; Mission Specialist 1, Turkish astronaut Alper Ge ... Read more »