It was return time for the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft which originally arrived and docked at the International Space Station on 16 December 2018. Having been unberthed from Harmony Nadir Port, the ISS robot arm released the Dragon CRS-16 spacecraft at 2333 GMT on 13...
While it may have been a calculated move to try and force international acceptance for his long time ally, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s decision to appoint him as head of the space agency/industrial complex Roscosmos...
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Propkopev made a spacewalk on 12 December 2018 to investigate the extent of the damage and the success of the repair work to the Soyuz MS-09 orbital module, which had had a hole apparently accidently drilled through it...
While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a...
At the end of November there was yet another sign that the World War II veterans are becoming an endangered species. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, who bravely served as a torpedo bomber aviator in the US Navy and who was even shot down, has passed away at...
At 1814 GMT on 16 November 2018, a Soyuz FG rocket lifted off from its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The main payload carried was a freighter spacecraft called Progress MS-10 (aka Progress 71) was launched in order to deliver...
