On July 4, 2021 Chinese cosmonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo performed the spacewalk to test new-generation Chinese-built spacesuits, to install foot restraints and a work platform on the space station’s robotic arm and to mount a panoramic camera outside the complex. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 46 minutes. It was the 2nd spacewalk for Liu Boming and the 1st spacewalk for Tang Hongbo. The spacewalk was the second extravehicular activity in the history of China’s space program, following a 22-minute spacewalk on the “Shenzhou-7” mission in 2008.

On July 2, 2021 at 00:59 UTC the Russian “Progress MS-17” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was docked to the Russian “Poisk” module. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of cargo for the ISS crew.

On June 29, 2021 at 23:27 UTC (on June 30, at 02:27 Moscow time) the “Progress MS-17” 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 June 29, 2021, the US "Cygnus” CRS-15 (NG-15 “Katherine Johnson”) 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 16:32 UTC. It was the 15^th successful flight of "Cygnus” to the ISS.

On June 25, 2021 American astronaut Robert Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to install a second new solar array outside the space station. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 45 minutes. It was the 9^th spacewalk for Robert Kimbrough and the 5^th spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.

On June 20, 2021 American astronaut Robert Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to deploy and unroll a new solar array blanket. The EVA lasted about 6 hours and 30 minutes. It was the 8^th spacewalk for Robert Kimbrough and the 4^th spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.

On June 17, 2021 at 07:54 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-12” manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the Chinese “Tianhe” core module of the new space station. The “Tianhe” (天和 – “Harmony of the Heavens”), core module has four docking ports, unlike China's two previous space stations which had only one. The spacecraft delivered 3 Chinese cosmonauts to the station: Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, Tang Hongbo.

On June 17, 2021 at 01:22 UTC the "Shenzhou-12” (神舟十二号) manned spacecraft was launched from Chinese Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The space vehicle was orbited by the Chinese "Chang Zheng-2F” (Long March 2F 长征二号F运载火箭) rocket-carrier.

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On June 16, 2021 American astronaut Robert Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to attach a rolled-up solar array. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 15 minutes. It was the 7^th spacewalk for Robert Kimbrough and the 3^rd spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.

Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, passed away on 15 June 2021 at the age of 93. He had performed three space flights. In 1969 he became the first person in the world who received mail (letters and newspapers) in space.