On January 20, 2024 at 10:44 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft docked with a docking adapter on the “Harmony” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt to the ISS. The new comers were welcomed by the current ISS Expedition 70 members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov.

On January 19, 2024 at 12:37 UTC, the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On January 12, 2024 at 08:02 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-6” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the aft port of the Chinese “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Tiangong Space Station). It was switched to independent flight mode.

On January 18, 2024 at 21:49 UTC the American SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA. The space vehicle was orbited by the “Falcon-9FT” rocket-carrier.

There were 4 crew members onboard the Crew Dragon – Commander, Michael López-Alegría, a US citizen and retired NASA astronaut; pilot, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei; Mission Specialist 1, Turkish astronaut Alper Ge ... Read more »

On January 17, 2024 at 17:46 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-7” (天舟七号) unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the “Tianhe” core module of the Chinese “Tiangong” Space Station. Tianzhou means “heavenly vessel” in Chinese.

On January 17, 2024 at 14:27 UTC, the Chang Zheng-7 (Long March-7) rocket-carrier was launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC), located in Wenchang on Hainan Island off China’s southern coastline. The rocket orbited the “Tianzhou-7” (天舟七号) unmanned supply spacecraft. The spacecraft is to dock with the Chinese space station.

On January 9, 2024 at 18:22 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-19 (NG-19, the S. S. Laurel Clark) unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited.

On December 22, 2023 at 10:00 UTC, the US "Cygnus” CRS-19 (NG-19, the S. S. Laurel Clark) unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. After that, the spacecraft, was released by using the “Canadarm-2” orbiting complex's huge robotic arm at 13:06 UTC.

On December 22, 2023 at 17:33 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, USA. It was the "SpaceX CRS-29” mission. It was the second flight of the Dragon C211 capsule. Dragon C211 is the third SpaceX Dragon 2 cargo variant.

On December 21, 2023 at 22:05 UTC, the Dragon CRS-29 spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station.