On October 26, 2023 at 03:14 UTC the "Shenzhou-17” manned spacecraft was launched from Chinese Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province. The space vehicle was orbited by the Chinese "Chang Zheng-2F” (Long March 2F) rocket-carrier.

The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Tang Hongbo (汤洪波) - center; Tang Shengjie ( ... Read more »

On October 25, 2023, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub performed the extra vehicle activities (EVA – spacewalk) to install a radar on the “Nauka” module. In addition, the cosmonauts had to conduct inspections and photograph leak sites at an additional radiant heat exchanger in the “Nauka” module. The EVA lasted 7 hours and 41 minutes. It was the 6^th EVA for Oleg Kononenko and the 1^st EVA for Nikolai Chub.

On September 27, 2023 at 11:17 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-23” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, 148 km at the southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 69 – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin as well as US astronaut Francisco Rubio. They spent in space 370 days, 21 hours and 22 minutes. Seven other ISS crew members – Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 70 crew. The undocking of Soyuz MS-23 marked the end of Expedition 69 and the start of Expedition 70.

On September 27, 2023 at 07:54 UTC, the Russian “Soyuz MS-23” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 69 – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin as well as US astronaut Francisco Rubio.

On September 15, 2023 at 18:53 UTC, the Russian "Soyuz MS-24” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Rassvet” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered 3 members of Expedition 69/70 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub as well as US astronaut Loral O'Hara. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 69 members – Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov. The 10 crew members will work together till September 27. After a “handover,” Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara will replace Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio, who plan to return to Earth aboard the “Soyuz MS-23” on September 27.

On September 15, 2023 at 15:44 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-24” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (center); flight-engineer 1, Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub (right); flight-engineer 2, US astronaut Loral O'Hara (left).

The launch was performed from Launch Site 31 (Baykonur Cosmo ... Read more »

On September 12, 2023 at 02:13 UTC, the Chinese “Tianzhou-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On September 11, 2023 at 08:46 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the forward docking port of “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Tiangong Space Station).

On September 4, 2023 at 04:17 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-6 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville, USA. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 69: US astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, UAE’s astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi (النيادي سلطان سيف مفتاح حمد) and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. They spent in space 185 days, 22 hours and 43 minutes. 7 other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Konstantin Borisov; US astronauts Francisco Rubio and Jasmin Moghbeli; astronaut from Denmark Andreas Mogensen; Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 69 crew members.

On September 3, 2023 at 11:05 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Endeavour” (Crew-6 mission) spacecraft undocked from the forward docking port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth 4 members of Expedition 69: US astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, UAE’s astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi (النيادي سلطان سيف مفتاح حمد) and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.