On July 26, 2021, the link of the “Progress MS-16” unmanned supply spacecraft and the Russian “Pirs” module was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 14:42 UTC.

On July 26, 2021 at 10:55 UTC the link of the “Progress MS-16” unmanned supply spacecraft and the Russian “Pirs” module was undocked from the International Space Station. Wrapping up nearly 20 years of service as a docking port and airlock, the Russian “Pirs” module departed the International Space Station under tow from the “Progress MS-16” supply spacecraft and headed for a destructive re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere, clearing the way for arrival of the Russian “Nauka” module. The “Pirs”(meaning "pier") docking module was launched on 14 September 2001, and was located on the Zvezda module of the station. It provided the ISS with one docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecra ... Read more »

On July 21, 2021 at 14:58 UTC the “Nauka” module, also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Proton-M” rocket-carrier. The International Space Station is set to receive its biggest expansion in more than a decade after the launch of a Russian research lab and a European robotic arm. Russian “Nauka”, or “science,” research module has a mass of about 20.2 tons and extends about 13 meters long. It’s the first large pressurized element to be permanently added to the space station since 2011, and will become one of the biggest modules at the complex.

On July 21, 2021 the Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-2 mission) spacecraft was redocked from the forward docking port on the “Harmony” module to the top-facing (upward-facing docking adapter), or zenith, docking port on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. During the redocking (10:48 – 11:35 UTC) the crew consisted of American astronauts Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The crew relocated the Crew Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft to clear the way for arrival of a Boeing Starliner crew ferry ship on an unpiloted test flight later in July.

On July 10, 2021 at 03:29 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico south of Tallahassee, Florida, USA. It was the "SpaceX CRS-22” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the 2^nd flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 22^nd flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On July 8, 2021 at 14:45 UTC, the Dragon CRS-22 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. It’s the 2^nd flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 22^nd flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

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.