On June 14, 2018, American astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold performed a spacewalk. The astronauts installed two new cameras on the “Harmony” module of the ISS. The cameras will provide views of commercial crew space vehicles during final approach and docking. The spacewalkers also replaced a faulty high-definition camera. The EVA (extravehicular activity) lasted 6 hours and 49 minutes. This was the 9^th spacewalk for Andrew Feustel and the 5^th for Richard Arnold.

On June 8, 2018 at 13:01 UTC the Russian "Soyuz MS-09” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Rassvet” (MIM-1) module of the International Space Station.

The spacecraft delivered 3 new members of Expedition 56 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopiev, German astronaut Alexander Gerst and American astronaut Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor. The new comers joined current ISS expedition members – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev; American astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold.

Soyuz MS-09 launch cover. The cover was autographed by the “Soyuz MS-09” crew: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopiev; German astronaut Alexander Gerst and American astronaut Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor.

On June 6, 2018 at 11:12 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-09” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopiev (center), German astronaut Alexander Gerst (right) and American astronaut Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor (left).

Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.

The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on June 8. Prokopiev, Gerst and Auñón-Chancellor will join current ISS expedition ... Read more »

On June 3, 2018 at 12:39 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-07” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 55 – Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai (金井 宣茂). They spent in space 168 days. Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev; American astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold remained in orbi ... Read more »

On June 3, 2018 at 09:16 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-07” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 55 – Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai (金井 宣茂).

On May 27, 2018 American astronaut Donald Herod Peterson, Sc. passed away. He was 84. He performed one space flight as a mission specialist on board space shuttle “Challenger” (STS-6 flight) in 1983. During the mission Donald Peterson performed a spacewalk.

On May 26, 2018 American astronaut Alan Lavern Bean passed away. He was 86. He was one of just 12 men to walk on the Moon. His death marks the passing of the last crew member who performed the second crewed flight to the Moon – Apollo 12.

On May 24, 2018, the American "Cygnus” (CRS OA-9E “S.S. J.R. Thompson”) private unmanned supply spacecraft was docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a robotic arm operated by astronauts inside the space station at 09:26 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Unity” module at 12:13 UTC. The spacecraft delivered about 3300 kilograms of supplies to the Space Station. It was the 9th docking of a "Cygnus” spacecraft with the ISS.

On May 21, 2018 at 08:44 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” (CRS OA-9E “S.S. J.R. Thompson”) 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” (CRS OA-9E) is the 9th successful flight of the Orbital ATK uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus.