NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle performed a spacewalk to replace a “latching end effector” (LEE-B) on the end of the International Space Station’s (ISS) robot arm. The extra vehicular activity – the formal name of a spacewalk...
Having previously publicised Jeanette Epps planned flight to the International Space Station (ISS) to make her the first African American on the space station (and fourth in orbit), there is now a mystery about why NASA has now replaced her for the mission. The...
The SpaceX Dragon CRS-13 cargo mission for NASA has now come to a successful end with its splashdown and recovery in the Pacific. The spacecraft, which was launched on 15 December 2017, was this time carrying 1850 kg of cargo for the downward leg. It was...
At 0727 GMT on 17 December a Soyuz FG was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan. The rocket’s payload, the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, US astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut, Norishige...
Soyuz MS-05 undocked from the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS) carrying Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky, US Astronaut Randy Bresnik and ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli at 0541 GMT on 14 December. The spacecraft then conducted its de-orbit engine...
After being attached to the International Space Station (ISS) for over three weeks (grappled and berthed on 14 November), it was time for the disposable Cygnus OA-8 (Gene Cernan) cargo spacecraft to leave. Cygnus OA-8 was unberthed from the Unity module at 1752 GMT...
