by David Todd | Jul 3, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA
On 1 July 2020, NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken conducted another spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to change out batteries. After depressurisation at 1108 GMT the airlock hatch was opened at 1112 GMT. During the spacewalk Li-ion... 
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2020 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, Russia, Soyuz, Space tourism
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency/industrial complex, has announced that it plans to allow two tourists to ride aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023. The two would-be astronauts will be accompanied by a professional cosmonaut... by David Todd | Jan 17, 2020 | International Space Station, NASA
Having been unberthed at 0500 GMT on on 7 Jan 2019, the Dragon CRS-19 cargo spacecraft was fully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) when it was released from the Space Station Remote Manipulator System at 1005 GMT on the same day. During its... by David Todd | Aug 22, 2019 | International Space Station
Having been delivered on the Dragon CRS-18’s trunk, the new IDA-3 docking adapter was moved to the space station by the Dextre robot arm. IDA-3 was berthed at the PMA-3 docking poor with a soft berthed at 1100 GMT on 21 August. On the same day, two astronauts... 
by David Todd | May 30, 2019 | Seradata News
At 1542 GMT on 29 May 2019 the hatch of the Pirs module was opened for the start of a six hour one minute long spacewalk involving two Russian cosmonauts. With five spacewalks under his belt, Oleg Kononenko was well placed to show his fellow cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin...
