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.

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 »