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.

On March 30, 2022 at 11:28 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-19” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 142 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 66/67 – Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as US astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Anton Shkaplerov spent in space 176 days, 02 hours and 33 minutes. Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande Hei spent in space 355 days, 03 hours and 45 minutes.

Seven other ISS crew members – Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Matthias Maurer, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition ... Read more »

On March 30, 2022 at 07:21 UTC, the Russian “Soyuz MS-19” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 66/67 – Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as US astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

On March 27, 2022 at 07:59 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Chinese “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Space Station).

On March 23, 2022 American astronauts Raja Chari and German astronaut Matthias Maurer performed the spacewalk to install hoses on a Radiator Beam Valve Module that routes ammonia through the station's heat-rejecting radiators to keep systems at the proper temperature. They also installed a power and data cable on the Columbus module's Bartolomeo science platform, replaced an external camera on the station's truss, and conducted other upgrades to station hardware.  The EVA lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes. It was the 2^nd spacewalk for Raja Chari and the 1^st spacewalk for Matthias Maurer.

On March 18, 2022 at 19:12 UTC, the Russian "Soyuz MS-21” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Prichal” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered 3 members of Expedition 66/67 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, Sergey Korsakov. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 66 members – Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov; US astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron; German astronaut Matthias Maurer. The 10 crew members will work together during 12 days. After a 12-day “handover,” Artemyev, Matveev and Korsakov will replace Shkaplerov, Dubrov and Vande Hei, who plan to return to Earth aboard the “Soyuz MS-19” on March 30. The day before, Shkaplerov will turn over command of the station to Marshburn. The mission ... Read more »

On March 18, 2022 at 15:55 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-21” 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 Russian cosmonauts: Commander, Oleg Artemyev (center); flight-engineer 1, Denis Matveev (right); flight-engineer 2, Sergey Korsakov (left).

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On March 15, 2022 American astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari performed the spacewalk to install brackets and struts to support new solar arrays to upgrade the power system of ISS. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes. It was the 2^nd spacewalk for Kayla Barron and the 1^st spacewalk for Raja Chari.

On February 21, 2022, the US "Cygnus” CRS-17 (NG-17, the S. S. Piers Sellers) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm at 09:44 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 12:02 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3700 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 17^th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS. This is the 6^th flight of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.