Space Events

Friday, June 25th 2021 at 8:00 AM EDT – NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will venture outside the orbiting outpost to continue installation of the new iROSA solar arrays.

Sunday, June 27th 2021 at 12:25 PM EDT – The Northrop Grumman NG-15 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere taking waste along with it.

Thursday, July 1st 2021 at 9:02 PM EDT – The Progress MS-17 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Poisk module of the ISS.

Saturday, July 17th 2021 at 10:41 AM EDT – The Progress MS-16 spacecraft will undock from the Zvezda module of the International Space Station.

It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

Friday, July 23rd 2021 at 12:28 PM EDT – The new MLM Nauka module will be docked to the Zvezda module of the International Space Staion.

Sunday, July 25th 2021 at 6:30 AM EDT – NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will relocate the Crew Dragon spacecraft to IDA-3 located at the zenith port of the Harmony module.

The relocation will free Harmony’s forward port for the docking of Crew-3, set to carry four crew members to the station in the fall of 2021.

Friday, July 30th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Boeing CST-100 Starliner will dock with the International Space Station as part of its second uncrewed test flight.

Monday, August 2nd 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – NASA TV will livestream the rendezvous and capture of Northrop Grumman’s NG-16 Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station.

Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Boeing CST-100 Starliner will undock from the International Space Station and conduct a deorbit burn as part of its second uncrewed test flight.

Following the deorbit burn the capsule will renter the Earth’s atmosphere and land at the ‘White Sands Missile Range’ using its parachutes.

Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 at 9:00 PM EDT – Following its deorbit burn, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and land at the White Sands Missile Range using its parachutes.

Wednesday, August 18th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – Following its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-23 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.

Saturday, September 11th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The SpaceX CRS-23 Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of its reentry, splashdown and recovery.

Monday, September 27th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft will be relocated from the Rassvet module to the Nauka module.

Monday, October 4th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov as Expeditions 65/66 crew member as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.

Thursday, October 14th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Northrop Grumman NG-16 Cygnus will be unberthed from the ISS before initiating a destructive reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere taking waste along with it.

Saturday, October 16th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying Expedition 65 crew member ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.

Saturday, October 16th 2021 at 11:00 PM EDT – The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Tuesday, October 26th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Progress MS-17 spacecraft will be relocated from the Poisk module to the Nauka module.

Friday, October 29th 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Progress MS-18 spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Zvezda module of the ISS.

Sunday, October 31st 2021 at 8:00 PM EDT – The Crew-3 Crew Dragon will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the International Space Station as crew members of Expedition 66.

Sunday, November 7th 2021 at 7:00 PM EST – The “Endeavour” Crew Dragon will undock from the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. It will then reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.

Sunday, November 7th 2021 at 8:00 PM EST – The “Endeavour” Crew Dragon will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet back to Earth after spending six months on the International Space Station.

Sunday, November 14th 2021 at 7:00 PM EST – NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer will relocate the Crew Dragon spacecraft to IDA-3 located at the zenith port of the Harmony module.

Wednesday, November 24th 2021 at 7:00 PM EST – The Progress MS-17 spacecraft will undock from the Nauka module of the International Space Station.

It will then de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

Thursday, November 25th 2021 at 7:00 PM EST – The modified Progress space tug called Progress-M-UM will dock the Prichal node module to the nadir port of the MLM Nauka module on the International Space Station. It will provide four ports to mount additional modules and one docking port for cargo and crew spacecrafts.