On December 8, 2021 at 07:38 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-20” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. There are 3 crew members aboard the spacecraft: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin (center); as well as 2 spaceflight-participants from Japan, Yusaku Maezawa (right) and Yozo Hirano (left).

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On December 2, 2021 American astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron performed the spacewalk to replace a faulty antenna on the ISS’s port-side truss. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 32 minutes. It was the 5^th spacewalk for Thomas Marshburn and the first one for Kayla Barron.

On November 26, 2021 at 15:19 UTC the Russian “Progress M-UM” unmanned supply spacecraft with “Prichal” module docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Nauka” module.

On November 25, 2021 at 14:23 Moscow time the Russian “Progress MS-17” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. In about 4 hours it was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On November 24, 2021 at 13:06 UTC the “Progress M-UM” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier. Progress M-UM is a specially modified “Progress M” Russian unmanned supply spacecraft to deliver the “Prichal” module to the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station (ISS). “Prichal” is a nodal module (the spherical, ball-shaped docking node) that has a pressurized spherical ball-shaped design with six hybrid docking ports.

On November 20, 2021, the US "Cygnus” CRS-16 (NG-16, the S. S. Ellison Onizuka) 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 16:01 UTC. It was the 16^th successful flight of "Cygnus” to the ISS.

On November 11, 2021 at 23:32 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endurance” (Crew-3 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The mission also known as USCV-3 (US Crew Vehicle 3). The spacecraft delivered US astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as German astronaut Matthias Maurer to the ISS. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 66 members – Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as US astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

On November 11, 2021 at 02:03 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endurance” (Crew-3 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The mission also known as USCV-3 (US Crew Vehicle 3). The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 4 astronauts – spacecraft commander American astronaut Raja Chari; pilot, American astronaut Thomas Marshburn; mission specialist 1, German astronaut Matthias Maurer; mission specialist 2, American astronaut Kayla Barron. It was the maiden flight of Crew Dragon Endurance.

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On November 9, 2021 at 03:33 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-2 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 66: US astronauts Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. They spent in space 199 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes.

3 other ISS crew members - Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as US astronauts Mark Vande Hei remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 66 crew members. It was the 3^rd piloted flight of the “Crew Dragon” spacecraft (it is also known as ... Read more »

On November 8, 2021 at 19:05 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-2 mission) spacecraft undocked from zenith docking port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 members of Expedition 66: US astronauts Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.