 Cygnus spacecraft was undocked from space station.
On October 22, 2013 the US "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. The spacecraft, which had been attached to the space station since Sept. 29, was released by astronauts aboard the station using the orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 11:31 UTC.
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U.S. “Cygnus” private spacecraft arrived at space station.
On September 29, 2013 the American "Cygnus” 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 about 11:00 UTC. The cargo spacecraft was docked to the station’s "Harmony” module. The official time of capture of the "Cygnus” with the Harmony module's common berthing mechanism was 12:44 UTC. Cygnus will remain attached to the ISS for 30 days before departing with disposal cargo on board. A privately-owned cargo ship is operated by U.S. space company Orbital Sciences Corp.
Orbital is the second U.S. company to send a commercial cargo craft to the space station. SpaceX was the first company to send its own cargo ship with two successful commercial resupply missions and two demonstration missions under its belt.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft docked to the ISS.
On September 26, 2013 at 02:45 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-10M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Poisk” ("Search”) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime.
The Soyuz TMA-10M delivered three new members of Expedition 37 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as American astronaut Michael Hopkins.
The new comers joined current ISS expedition members - Russian cosmonaut Fjodor Yurchikhin, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, American astronaut Karen Nyberg to form Expedition 37 crew of 6 members.
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-10M manned spacecraft.
On September 25, 2013 at 20:58 UTC (on September 26 at 00:58 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-10M” 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 Oleg Kotov (center); flight-engineer, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy (right); American astronaut Michael Hopkins (left). 
Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center.
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station just after 4 orbits. Kotov, Ryazanskiy and Hopkins will join current ISS expedition members,
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Private US Cygnus spacecraft delayed rendezvous with ISS.
On September 22, 2013 the US "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft was to be docked with the International Space Station. But the rendezvous of the Cygnus cargo ship with the International Space Station (ISS) was delayed due to a computer data link glitch between them. The spacecraft was originally expected to be captured by a robotic arm operated by astronauts inside the space station. At around 05:30 UTC, the Cygnus established direct data contact with the ISS and found that some of the data received had values that it did not expect, causing Cygnus to reject the data. This mandated an interruption of the approach sequence.
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New private spacecraft was launched to ISS on demo mission.
On September 18 at 10:58 UTC a new privately owned U.S. unmanned spacecraft was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island off the U.S. east coast., Va., USA. The "Cygnus” unmanned supply spacecraft, built by U.S. space firm Orbital Sciences Corp., was orbited by the company's "Аntares” rocket-carrier on a demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
It is the first flight of the "Cygnus”, which carries about 590 kg of various supplies, and the second flight of the "Antares” rocket, which made a successful debut in April.
The goal of the mission is to demonstrate the capability of Orbital's cargo transportation system to deliver cargo to the space station.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft landed.
On September 11, 2013 at 02:58 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-08M” landing capsule landed safely in a remote area near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. photo by NASA The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 36 – Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Alexander Misurkin (right) as well as American astronaut Christopher Cassidy (left).
They spent in space 166 days, 06 hours, 15 minutes.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonaut Fjodor Yurchikhin, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and American astronaut Karen Nyberg - remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 37 crew.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-08M undocked from ISS.
On September 10, 2013 at 23:35 UTC (on September 11 at 03:35 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-08M” spacecraft undocked from the Russian "Poisk” ("Search”) module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 36 –Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin as well as American astronaut Christopher Cassidy.
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Japanese HTV-4 cargo ends its flight.
On September 07, 2013 the Japanese HTV "Kounotori-4” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Following its departure from the International Space Station on September 04, the HTV-4 spent two and a half days in free flight, performing a number of altitude reduction maneuvers to set up for re-entry. This burn began at 6:11 UTC and slowed HTV down just enough to enable it to intercept Earth’s atmosphere at a pre-planned location above the Pacific.
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