International Space Station @Space_StationThe @SpaceX cargo Dragon is heading back to Earth, with splashdown off the coast of Florida expected at 4:58pm ET. 🪂Follow the space station blog for updates: http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsCRS-27: A 10-min 01-sec rocket firing to drop out of orbit is targeted for 4:09pm (2009 UTC), setting up a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa around 4:58pm; the spacecraft is bringing 4,300 lbs of equipment and research samples back to Earth
NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest Through 2024 [dated Apr. 14]Quote from: NASANASA and its industry partners, Boeing and SpaceX, are planning target launch schedules for upcoming commercial crew missions to the International Space Station.Target Launch ManifestNASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test: NET July 21, 2023NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7: NET mid-August 2023NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8: NET February 2024NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1: NET Summer 2024
NASA and its industry partners, Boeing and SpaceX, are planning target launch schedules for upcoming commercial crew missions to the International Space Station.Target Launch ManifestNASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test: NET July 21, 2023NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7: NET mid-August 2023NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8: NET February 2024NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1: NET Summer 2024
SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down at 4:58 p.m. EDT Saturday, April 15, off the coast of Tampa, Florida, marking the return of the company’s 27th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft carried approximately 4,300 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo back to Earth.
Splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 27th cargo resupply mission to the @space_station !
July • Antares • NG-19Launch time: TBDLaunch site: Pad 0A, Wallops Island, Virginia
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin began a spacewalk at 9:40 p.m. EDT to relocate a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module with assistance from European robotic arm operator cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin concluded their spacewalk on Tuesday, April 19, at 5:35 a.m. EDT after seven hours and 55 minutes.Prokopyev and Petelin completed their major objectives, which included relocating a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module with assistance from European robotic arm operator cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Friday, April 217 a.m. – Release coverage of the Northrop Grumman “SS Sally Ride” Cygnus cargo craft from the International Space Station (release is scheduled at 7:20 a.m.) – Johnson Space Center (all channels)
At 7:22 a.m. EDT, Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm which earlier detached Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station’s Unity module. At the time of release, the station was flying southwest of Ireland.
DENVER — A Swedish astronaut may fly to the International Space Station on a commercial mission within the next year under an agreement signed this week.The letter of intent, signed by the Swedish National Space Agency, European Space Agency and Axiom Space, would allow an ESA astronaut, most likely from Sweden, to go to the station on an Axiom commercial mission lasting about 10 days.Under the three-way agreement, the Swedish National Space Agency would negotiate directly with Axiom for the flight on a future private astronaut mission. ESA would be the “crew provider” for the mission, signing an agreement with Axiom to define and implement the mission and assigning an ESA astronaut to it.
CRS NG-21Launch TimeNET January, 2024
CRS NG-22Launch TimeNET July, 2024
CRS NG-23Launch TimeNET October, 2024
CRS NG-24Launch TimeNET April, 2025
CRS NG-25Launch TimeNET October, 2025
ISS configuration after "S.S. Sally Ride" NG-18 departure.(And they have update the MLM-U configuration, too...)
The EVA, previously scheduled for April 26, 2023, was postponed, tentatively, to the beginning of May due to the need for a more detailed study of its tasks.During the EVA, the cosmonauts will have to transfer the airlock with the ERA manipulator from the Rassvet module and dock it to the Nauka module.
End of missionDisposal DeorbitedDecay date 22 April 2023, 03:12 UTC
