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.

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 »