On September 11, 2024 at 16:23 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-26” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin (center); flight-engineer 1, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner (right); flight-engineer 2, US astronaut Donald Pettit (left).

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On September 12, 2024 Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis performed the first commercial spacewalk ever (1 hour and 46 minutes). They stepped out of the Crew Dragon one after the other for about 20 minutes. They remain secured via foot straps that are attached to a kind of ladder at the other end. In contrast to external missions on the ISS space station, they are not supplied with breathing air via a backpack, but via a hose from the spacecraft.

Scott Poteet and Anna Menon remained in the depressurized capsule and made an IVA.

On September 10, 2024 at 09:23 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Polaris Dawn mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier. Polaris Dawn was a private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman.

The spacecraft’s crew consists of 4 members – spacecraft commander Jared Isaacman (USA); pilot, Scott Poteet (USA); mission specialist 1, Sarah Gillis (USA); mission specialist 2, Anna Menon. It’s the 14^{th ... Read more »}

On September 7, 2024 at 04:01 UTC, the uncrewed landing capsule of CST-100 Boe-CFT Starliner Calypso (Spacecraft 3) landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, USA.

On September 6, 2024 at 22:04 UTC, CST-100 Boe-CFT Starliner Calypso undocked from the “Harmony” module of the ISS to return to Earth in uncrewed regime.

On August 17, 2024 at 05:53 UTC, the Russian “Progress MS-28” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Zvezda” module. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew.

On August 15, 2024 at 03:20 UTC, the “Progress MS-28” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier.

On August 13, 2024 at 02:00 UTC the Russian “Progress MS-26” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the “Zvezda” service module of the International Space Station. At the same day, the spacecraft was deorbited and burnt down in atmosphere over the South Pacific.

Retired NASA astronaut Jon Andrew McBride died on August 7, 2024. He was the pilot on the first mission to launch seven people into space (Challenger STS-41G). He performed 1 space flight. He was 80.

On July 3, 2024 Chinese cosmonauts Ye Guangfu and Li Cong performed the spacewalk

More debris shields on the “Wentian” module were installed and checked solar arrays. The spacewalk lasted 6 hours and 32 minutes. It was the 3^rd spacewalk for Ye Guangfu and the 1^st spacewalk for Li Cong.

On August 6, 2024, the US "Cygnus” CRS-21 (NG-21, the S.S. Francis R. "Dick" Scobee) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 07:11 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 09:33 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station.

On August 4, 2024 at 15:02 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-21 (the S.S. Francis R. "Dick" Scobee) 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.

On July 13, 2024 at 15:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited.

On July 12, 2024 at 8:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-20 (NG-20, the S.S. Patricia "Patty" Hilliard Robertson) unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. After that, the spacecraft, was released by using the “Canadarm-2” orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 11:01 UTC.

Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Joe Henry Engle died on July 10, 2024 at his home in Houston. He performed 2 space flights. Among his many honors, he is the only astronaut to pilot both the X-15 and space shuttle. He was 91.

U.S. spacewalk was cancelled on June 24, 2024 due to a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit (SCU) on Tracy Dyson's spacesuit.

Tracy Dyson and Michael Barratt set their suits to battery power at 12:46 UTC and opened the hatch to the space station's Quest airlock before reporting the water issue.

"Oh my goodness," said Tracy Dyson. "Water is flowing out of my SCU guys."

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