At 1112 GMT on 6 June 2011 a Soyuz FG rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The crew aboard the Soyuz MS-09 (ISS-55S) spacecraft consisted of Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, NASA Astronaut Dr Serena Aunon-Chancellor and ESA...
In a bit of a public relations offensive by Russia (thankfully no chemical warfare is involved in this campaign) the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has publicised the FIFA World Cup in Russia, by having two Cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev, practice...
The crewed Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 0916 GMT on 3 June 2018. The crew aboard were Roscosmos cosmonaut Commander Anton Shkaplerov, NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and JAXA astronaut Norishige Kanai. The three men had a 168...
At 0844 GMT, on 21 May, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket lifted-off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Virginia, carrying the CYGNUS OA-9 cargo craft to the ISS (International Space Station). This Cygnus craft received the name SS J.R. THOMPSON, after a former...
NASA’s experienced spacewalkers, Expedition 55 astronaut Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, have completed fifth spacewalk of this year on 16 May 2018. This Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) involved the two astronauts movING a new Pump Flow Control...
The Dragon CRS-14 cargo craft was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 4 on its way on a NASA funded delivery mission to the International Space Station. The launch took place at 2030 GMT on 2 April 2018 from the rocket’s Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida....
