Astronauts assigned to the Artemis 2 Moon mission
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The Artemis 2 astronauts were announced in Houston, marking the first time in the 21st century a human crew has been assigned to fly a mission to the Moon.
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Soyuz MS-13 crew returns to Earth after record-breaking mission
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch, along with European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, returned to Earth after a record-breaking stay aboard the International Space Station.
Read MoreAstronauts finish replacing batteries on port side of ISS
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Three months after the first all-female spacewalk, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station twice in five days to complete work replacing batteries, helping to set the stage for the next decade of ISS operations.
Read MoreAstronauts wrap 2nd spacewalk of 2019
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NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch ventured outside the International Space Station to continue work to replace aging nickel-hydrogen batteries on the P4 truss segment.
The March 29, 2019, extravehicular activity was the second of three planed in less than a month and focused on installing three battery adapter plates and new lithium-ion units.
Read MoreAssignment shuffle precludes all-female spacewalk
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NASA said assignments for the next two spacewalks outside the International Space Station have been changed because of “spacesuit availability.”
On Mach 25, 2019, NASA said Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nick Hague will switch spacewalking assignments.
Read MoreSoyuz MS-12 reaches ISS, Expedition 59 begins
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After a successful launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with the International Space Station some six hours later.
Aboard Soyuz MS-12 was Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch. The spacecraft’s arrival at the Earth-facing port of the Rassvet module at 01:01 UTC March 15 doubled the outpost’s crew size and set the stage for a busy next couple of weeks of spacewalks and science.
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