On April 7, 2020 at 10:30 UTC the station's robotic arm removed the Dragon capsule from its berthing port on the station’s Harmony module. Using a command issued from the mission control center, the robot arm released the Dragon CRS-20 spacecraft at 13:06 UTC. It was the 20^th flight of Dragon to the ISS with docking, including a demonstration flight in 2012. For the final time, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule was released from the International Space Station’s robotic arm. Beginning later this year, SpaceX will fly upgraded Dragon cargo spaceships that will dock automatically with the space station.

On March 18, 2020 American astronaut Alfred Worden passed away. He was 88. Alfred Worden was the command module pilot for the “Apollo-15” lunar mission in 1971.

On March 9, 2020 at 12:18 UTC, the private U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft, the "Dragon” SpX-20 (CRS-20 flight), was successfully docked to the International Space Station. The linkup operation was carried out with the help of the giant 17-meter Canadarm. The capture with Canadarm-2 was performed by American astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan at 10:25 UTC. The Dragon spacecraft was maneuvered into position and attached to a berthing port on the space station's Harmony module. It was the last SpaceX cargo vehicle captured by the Canadarm as future vehicles will automatically dock to the space station. This docking marked the 20^th time a Dragon spaceship has reached the space station, counting a demonstration flight in 2012. The Dragon spacecraft delivered supplies, equipment and research investigations for the station’s cr ... Read more »

On March 7, 2020 at 04:50 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 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-20 flight also known as SpX-20) unmanned spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. It is the 21^st successful flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 20^th successful flight of a “Dragon” to the ISS.

On February18, 2020, the American "Cygnus” CRS-13 (NG-13) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by American astronaut Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan inside the space station at 09:05 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 11:16 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 2500 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 13^th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS. This is the second flight of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract.

On February 15, 2020 at 20:21 UTC the "Cygnus” privately owned U.S. unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, USA. The spacecraft was orbited by the “Antares-230” rocket-carrier. The "Cygnus” NG-13 (previously known as CRS OA-13) unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited on its cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. The "Cygnus” NG-13 is the 13^th successful flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus.

On 10 February 2020 Indian candidates for a spaceflight began the planned training program at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center. The program has been performing under the contract between Glavkosmos, JSC (part of the “Roscosmos” - Russian State Space Corporation) and the Human Spaceflight Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The contract was signed on 27 June 2019. The document implies the support of Glavkosmos in selection of candidates, their medical examination, and various aspects of space training. After thorough selection, the four Indian Air Force fighter pilots became the ISRO candidates for the spaceflight. The 12-month training program includes comprehensive and biomedical training of the Indian candidates, which will be combined with regular physical practices. In addition, they will study in detail the systems of the Soyuz manned spaceship, as well as they ... Read more »

On February 6, 2020 at 09:13 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-13” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of about 147 kilometers to south-east from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 61 – Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and American astronaut Christina Koch. Aleksandr Skvortsov and Luca Parmitano spent in space 200 days and 16 hours; Christina Koch spent in space ... Read more »

On February 6, 2020 at 05:50 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-13” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 61 – Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and American astronaut Christina Koch.

On January 29, 2020 the “STPsat-4” satellite for US Air Force was launched from the International Space Station. It was launched from the “Kibo” module by using SSIKLOPS (the Space Station Integrated Kinetic Launcher for Orbital Payload Systems). The satellite was transported to the space station by the “Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft in November 2019.