Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchcov – the two Sergeys – made an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) – more commonly known as a spacewalk, from the airlock on the Poisk module on the International Space Station on 18 November 2020....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft (dubbed Resilience) for NASA’s commercially purchased Crew-1 mission took off for the International Space Station (ISS) at 0037 GMT on 15 November 2020. It was launched from the old Space Shuttle Pad...
Soyuz MS-16, having undocked from the International Space Station at 2332 GMT on 21 October 2020, proceeded to make its deorbit burn at 0200 GMT on 22 October before separate into three modules with the landing module carrying three crew Russian cosmonauts Anatoliy...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith EXplorer) space probe successfully descended, matched the asteroid Bennu’s rotational speed and landed on it on 20 October. The manoeuvre was a touch-and-go...
The European Space Agency (ESA) took the opportunity at the International Astronautical Congress IAC 2020 (Online/Cyberspace edition) to announce contracts related to exploration. First out of the bag was the €491 million construction contract awarded to Airbus...
In a record-breaking flight, the Soyuz MS-17 crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched by a Soyuz 2.1a from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, at 0545 GMT on 14 October. On board were NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and...
