The Shenzhou 12 craft with Taikonauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo undocked from the Chinese Space Station (CSS) – also known as Tiangong – on 16 September at 0056 GMT, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office. The space station had been...
Shenzhou 12 taikonauts, Liu Boming and Nie Haisheng conducted the second EVA from the Chinese Space Station (CSS) on 20 August at 0038 GMT. Tang Hongbo remained inside the Tianhe-1 module this time whilst mission commander Nie Haisheng worked with Liu Boming to...
Taikonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo opened the Tianhe 1 hatch on 4 July at 0011 GMT. Boming exited the Chinese space station airlock first to attach a foot restraint and platform to the end of the station’s 10 metre robotic arm. He then mounted the arm....
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz 2-1A rocket carrying the Progress MS-17 re-supply vessel in to LEO at 2327 GMT on 29 June. The mission lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan towards the ISS and was loaded with 2,439 kg of water, fuel, food, air,...
China launched its first crew to the Tianhe core module of the formative China Space Station (CSS) on 17 June, marking a historic development for this relatively new spacefaring nation. The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft was launched to a 380 km low Earth orbit on a Long...
Crew members of Expedition 65, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough switched to internal battery power and opened the Quest Airlock hatch at 1211 GMT on 16 June. The planned six-and-a-half-hour mission was to fit the first of six new ISS...
