On February 1, 2021 American astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover performed the spacewalk to complete solar array battery replacement work that began four years ago. They also installed three new video cameras and made preparations for upcoming work to install new roll-out solar blankets to upgrade the lab’s power system. The EVA lasted 5 hours and 20 minutes. It was the 4^th spacewalk for Michael Hopkins and the 2^nd spacewalk for Victor Glover.

On January 27, 2021 American astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover performed the spacewalk to install a European Space Agency data relay antenna and to connect four of six cables to partially power a new ESA experiment platform. They also removed two solar array handling fixtures to clear the way for a future power system upgrade. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 56 minutes. It was the 3rd spacewalk for Michael Hopkins and the 1^st spacewalk for Victor Glover.

On January 14, 2021 at 01:26 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the US state of Florida. It was the "SpaceX CRS-21” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It was the first flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 21st flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On January 12, 2021 at 14:05 UTC, the Dragon CRS-21 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. It’s the first flight of the new generation of Dragon cargo capsules also known SpaceX Dragon 2 or Cargo Dragon 2. It was the 21^st flight of Cargo Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012.

On January 11, 2021 American astronaut William Edgar Thornton passed away. He was 91. He performed 2 space flights by American Space Shuttle – STS-8 and STS-51B missions.

On January 6, 2021, the US "Cygnus” CRS-14 (NG-14 “Kalpana Chawla”) 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 15:11 UTC. It was the 14^th successful flight of "Cygnus” to the ISS.

On December 7, 2020 at 18:40 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-21 (CRS-21 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. The Cargo Dragon capsule is the first spacecraft to dock to the zenith port of the US “Harmony” module. It was the first SpaceX cargo vehicle that automatically docked to the space station without being captured by the Canadarm. This docking marked the 21^st time a Dragon spaceship has reache ... Read more »

On December 6, 2020 at 16:17 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-21 flight also known as SpX-21) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 22^nd successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 21^st successful flight of a “Dragon” cargo spacecraft to the ISS. It was the first flight for SpaceX under NASA's CRS Phase 2 contract awarded in January 2016. ... Read more »

On November 18, 2020, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk). The spacewalkers used the “Poisk” docking compartment as an airlock for the first time to begin preparing the nearly identical Russian “Pirs” module for removal next year. A new laboratory module will be docked in its place later. The “Poisk” module was launched almost exactly 11 years ago, on November 10, 2009, and was attached to the “Zvezda” module’s upper port two days later. It has been used as a docking port for unpiloted “Progress” cargo space vehicles and “Soyuz” crew ferry spaceships many times but never as an airlock. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 47 minutes. It was the 41st EVA for both ... Read more »

On November 17, 2020 at 04:00 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The mission also known as USCV-1 (US Crew Vehicle 1). The spacecraft delivered American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker as well as Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the ISS.

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