On April 28, 2021 at 02:11 Moscow time (on April 27 at 23:11 UTC) the Russian “Progress MS-14” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station.

On April 24, 2021 at 09:08 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-2 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The mission also known as USCV-2 (US Crew Vehicle 2). The spacecraft delivered American astronauts Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet to the ISS.

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On April 23, 2021 at 09:49 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-2 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The mission also known as USCV-2 (US Crew Vehicle 2). The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 4 astronauts – spacecraft commander American astronaut Robert Kimbrough; pilot, American astronaut Katherine Megan McArthur; mission specialist 1, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide; mission specialist 2, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

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On April 17, 2021 at 04:55 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-17” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 150 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 64 – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as well as American astronaut Kathleen Rubins.They spent in space 184 days, 23 hours and 10 minutes. Seven other ISS crew members – Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, Shannon Walker, Oleg Novickiy, Pyotr Dubrov and Mark Vande H ... Read more »

On April 9, 2021 at 11:05 UTC, the Russian "Soyuz MS-18” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Rassvet” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered 3 members of Expedition 64/65 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov as well as American astronaut Mark Vande Hei. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 64 members – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov; American astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker; Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The 10 members of Expedition 64 will work together till April 17, 2021. On April 17, 2021, Serge ... Read more »

On April 9, 2021 at 07:42 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-18” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novickiy (center), Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov (right) and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei (left).

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On April 5, 2021 the Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft was redocked from the forward docking port on the “Harmony” module to the top-facing, or zenith, docking port on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. During the redocking the crew consisted of American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The redocking mission lasted 38 minutes. It was the first relocation maneuver for a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The crew relocated the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft to clear the way for the next Crew Dragon (Crew-2 mission) to dock with the forward docking port on the “Harmony” module.

On March 13, 2021 American astronauts Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins performed the spacewalk. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 47 minutes. It was the 4^th spacewalk for Victor Glover and the 5^th spacewalk for Michael Hopkins.

On March 5, 2021 American astronauts Kathleen Rubins and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi performed the spacewalk to complete assembly of two solar array support fixtures, part of a $100 million power system upgrade. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 56 minutes. It was the 4^th spacewalk for Kathleen Rubins and the 4^th for Soichi Noguchi.

On February 28, 2021 American astronauts Kathleen Rubins and Victor Glover performed the spacewalk for the first in a series of spacewalks to upgrade the lab’s aging solar power system, assembling a support fixture that eventually will hold a new solar blanket. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 04 minutes. It was the 3^rd spacewalk for both Kathleen Rubins and for Victor Glover.