 First American woman in space passed away.
After a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut passed away on July 23, 2012 in San Diego, California, at the age of 61.
Sally Ride, who joined U.S. space agency NASA in 1978, became in 1983 the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger. She was also the youngest American space traveler at the time. One of her
hobby was stamp collecting.
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Russian Progress spacecraft undocked from the ISS.
On July 22. 2012 at 20:25 UTC (July 23 at 00:25 Moscow time) the Russian "Progress M-15M” undocked from the International Space Station.
It is planned to dock the spacecraft with the ISS again to test an upgraded Russian "Kurs” docking system.
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Japan launched unmanned spacecraft to the ISS.
On June 21, 2012 at 02:06 UTC Japan successfully launched the H-2B rocket-carrier from the Tanegashima Space Center, an island base at the southern tip of Japan.
The rocket orbited HTV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft. Japan is calling the spacecraft Kounotori, which means white stork.
The spacecraft is to deliver more than five tons of cargo to the International Space Station.
The HTV-3 is to be docked with the ISS in a week.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked to the ISS.
On July 17, 2012 at 04:51 UTC the"Soyuz TMA-05M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Rassvet” module of the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-05M delivered three new members of Expedition 32 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
The new comers joined current ISS expedition members Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka and Sergey Revin as well as American astronaut Joseph Acaba to form Expedition 32 crew of 6 members.
Padalka, Revin and Acaba have been aboard the station for 2 months since arriving in May 2012.
The new crew members are expected to conduct over 30 scientific missions during their stay on board the ISS.
For Malenchenko, this is his fifth long-duration spaceflight. Williams and Hoshide visited the ISS once each, traveling on board a U.S. space shuttle. It is their firs
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-05M manned spacecraft.
On July 15, 2012 at 02:40 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-05M” 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 Yuri Malenchenko (center); flight-engineer, American astronaut Sunita Williams (right); flight-engineer, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (left).
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on July 17.
Photo by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
Malenchenko, Williams and Hoshide will join current ISS expedition m
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Astronaut Alan Poindexter died in accident.
On July 01, 2012 American astronaut Alan Goodwin Poindexter died from injuries sustained in a jet ski crash in Florida. He was 50 years old.
A.Poindexter, a two-time space shuttle flier, was jet skiing with his sons near Pensacola Beach, when the accident occurred. Poindexter and his son were still sitting on the jet ski when Poindexter's oldest son, 26-year-old Zachary, crashed into them on a separate jet ski. Poindexter later died of his injuries after being airlifted to a nearby Baptist Hospital.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-03M manned spacecraft landed.
On July 1, 2012 at 08:14 UTC the Soyuz TMA-03M landing capsule landed safely at a distance of 148 kilometers to South-East from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 31 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, American astronaut Donald Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers (the Netherlands). They spent in space 192 days, 18 hours, 58 minutes and 37 seconds.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American astronaut Joseph Acaba - remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station.
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Russian “Soyuz TMA-03M” spacecraft undocked from the ISS.
On July 01, 2012 at 04:47 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-03M” manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 31 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, American astronaut Donald Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers (the Netherlands).
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Chinese Shenzhou-9 spacecraft safely returned to Earth.
On June 29, 2012 at 02:01 UTC the Shenzhou-9 return capsule touched down in Inner Mongolia, northern China. The 3 Chinese cosmonauts - Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and first Chinese woman-cosmonaut Liu Yang safely returned to Earth after fulfilling the country’s first manned space docking.
Medical staff entered the capsule and reported the astronauts were in good conditions.
The space flight lasted 12 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes and 35 seconds. The record flight duration for Chinese manned space flights.
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Shenzhou-9 undocked from Tiangong-1 lab module.
On June 28, 2012 at 01:22 UTC the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with 3 cosmonauts aboard undocked from the Tiangong-1 space station to begin returning to Earth.
Liu Wang, one of the cosmonauts, conducted the operation to separate Shenzhou-9 and the orbiting Tiangong-1. He continued manual operations to direct the spacecraft to a safe distance from the lab module.
During their stay in Tiangong-1, all experiments and tests were finished as scheduled and produced valuable data.
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