On June 5, 2021 at 09:09 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-22 (CRS-22 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station. It was the new generation of Dragon cargo spacecraft also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the second SpaceX cargo vehicle that automatically docked to the space station without being captured by the Canadarm. This docking marked the 22^nd time a Dragon cargo spaceship has reached the space station, counting a demonstration flight in 2012 as well as the 2^nd time for the cargo version of the SpaceX Dragon-2 (Cargo Dragon-2).

On June 3, 2021 at 17:29 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-22 flight also known as SpX-22) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 23^rd successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 22^nd successful flight of a “Dragon” cargo spacecraft to the ISS. It was the 2^nd flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract awarded in January 2016. It was the 2^nd launch of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Ca ... Read more »

On June 2, 2021, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk) to wrap up preparations for detaching the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment next month, clearing the way for the long-planned arrival of a new laboratory module. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 19 minutes (from 05:53 till 13:12 UTC). It was the first EVA for both cosmonauts.

On May 29, 2021 at 21:01 UTC (on May 30 by Beijing time) the Chinese “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the Chinese “Tianhe” space station core module. Tianzhou means “heavenly vessel” in Chinese. The “Tianzhou-2” delivered 6,640 kilograms of propellant and dry goods to the “Tianhe” core module. The “Tianzhou” spacecraft is similar in purpose to cargo freighters that fly to the International Space Station, such as the Russian Progress supply ship and the commercial Cygnus and Dragon carriers built by Northrop Grumman and SpaceX. In design and capability, the Tianzhou is most like Russian Progress and Europe’s now-retired Automated Transfer Vehicle, which carried dry goods, water and propellant to the orbiting outpost. The U.S. commercial supply ships and Japan’s H ... Read more »

On May 29, 2021 at 12:55 UTC, the Chang Zheng-7 (Long March-7) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianzhou-2” unmanned supply spacecraft.

On May 2, 2021 at 06:57 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico south of Panama City, Florida, USA. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 65: American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They spent in space 167 days, 6 hours and 29 minutes.

Seven other ISS crew members - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov; American astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur; Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 65 crew members ... Read more »

On May 2, 2021 at 00:35 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft undocked from zenith docking port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 members of Expedition 65: American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

On Aril 29, 2021 at 03:23 UTC the Chang Zheng-5B (Long March-5B) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianhe” space station core module. It is the first element of the Chinese space station laying the keystone to a permanently-inhabited orbiting habitat that could welcome its first astronauts this summer. The liftoff of the Tianhe core module begins the most ambitious project in the history of China’s nearly 30-year human spaceflight program, which s ... Read more »

On April 29, 2021 the “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific at 00:42 UTC.

American astronaut Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, has passed away after a battle with cancer. He was 90.