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The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, all flight engineers, docked to the International Space Station’s Poisk mini-research module on November 16th, 2011 heralding the transition between Expedition 29 and Expedition 30 as Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov, three members of Expedition 29 left the ISS and landed their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft through which they had reached the Station in June 2011, in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Nov. 21

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2014

.Robonaut 2 was fitted with a set of legs by late August
.Two Expedition 40 Russian crew wrapped up a 5-hour, 11-minute spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2014 deploying a small science satellite, and performing other tasks. U.S. spacewalks planned for Aug. 21 and 29 were delayed until the new Long Life Batteries to be delivered aboard the SpaceX-4 cargo ship by fall
.Orbital Sciences Cygnus commercial cargo craft completed a month-long delivery mission as it undocked from the ISS on August 15, 2014
.ESA’s fifth and final ATV, Georges Lemaître, docked with the ISS on August 12th, 2014 for a six-month resupply and reboost mission. The European cargo ship docked after a period of tests for future ESA's ships
.Russia’s Progress 55 cargo craft finished its mission in space on July 31st, 2014 after 10 days in orbit of engineering tests
.The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) after a launch atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on Jul. 29, 2014, is to journey during two weeks to reached the ISS on next Aug. 12. The ATV-5 will pass 3.9 miles beneath the ISS on Aug. 8 to test new rendezvous sensors. That ATV was named from Belgian physicist and astronomer, abbot Georges Lemaitre, who applied Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity to cosmology
.The ISS Progress 56 resupply spacecraft successfully automatically docked to the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment on Jul. 23,2014 less than six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and a expedited, 4-orbit trek to the station
.The Expedition 40 crew welcomed Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo spacecraft on Jul. 16, 2014 as the remotely operated from Houston, Texas, Canadarm 2 robotic arm guided the cargo craft to its berthing port on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module. The cargo ship had launched atop a Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket July 13, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
.A seven hour and 23 minute spacewalk was performed on Jun. 19, 2014 installing a radar antenna and telemetry system for a technology demonstration
.A unpiloted Russian Progress cargo spacecraft undocked from the ISS on Jun. 9, 2014
.NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video from the International Space Station to Earth on Jun. 5, 2014 through laser energy, a demonstration to improve the speed of space transmissions
.A six-and-a-half hour spacewalk at a underminated date, by two Russian International Space Station crew members installed new communications equipment on the Zvezda service module
.New Expedition 40 crew members were welcomed aboard the ISS on May 28th, 2014 may after a launch from Baikonur less than 6 hours before
.SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departed from the ISS on May 18th, 2014 as unberthed before release, through commands sent by robotic ground controllers at mission control in Houston operating the Canadarm 2 robotic arm. Three thruster firings were to be performed to move the craft away and then, at a safe distance, a deorbit burn for a splash down a hour later in the the Pacific Ocean 300 miles West of Baja California, returning cargo. A boat was to carry the Dragon spacecraft to a port near Los Angeles, where it will be prepared for a return journey to SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas, for processing
.Three members of Expedition 39 returned Earth on May 13th, 2014, landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan. That marked the end of Expedition 39 and the start of Expedition 40 under the command of NASA astronaut Steve Swanson. Two weeks will occur until the arrival of three new crew members
.The ISS Progress 53 resupply ship redocked on Apr. 25, 2014 to the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module after a 48-hour venture away from the complex to enable Russian flight controllers to test its upgraded Kurs automated rendezvous system
.Spacewalking astronauts easily replaced a dead computer on Apr. 23, 2014 outside the International Space Station and got their orbiting home back up to full strength
.After questions about whether the launch should occur during the failure of one of the ISS' backup computer, and that a helium leak occurred on the Falcon 9 rocket, the third SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule eventually launched to the ISS on April 18, 2014 as the flight is bringing varied cargo to the ISS, among which high-tech legs for Robonaut 2 (R2) which will ease the motion and work of the robot at the station. The craft arrived at the Station on Apr. 20 and was grappled the Canadarm2 robotic arm
.A backup computer on the exterior of the ISS called a Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (MDM), located on one exterior truss, stopped responding to commands since Apr. 11, 2014
.The ISS Progress 55 cargo craft was to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 9th, 2014 on a expedited six-hour journey to the orbital outpost after just four orbits
.The ISS Progress 54P cargo ship, which had arrived at the ISS in February, undocked on April 7th, 2014 as it will orbit Earth during 11 days for engineering tests before deorbiting
.ISS flight controllers conducted a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) by early April 2014 to raise the altitude of the International Space Station by a half-mile and provide an extra margin of clearance from the orbital path of a spent payload deployment mechanism from an old European Ariane 5 rocket
.SpaceX 2nd Dragon commercial cargo craft arrived at the ISS on March 3rd, 2014 for its capture by the station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2
.Three additional crewmembers of Expedition 39 flew to the ISS aboard a Soyuz craft and as launched on March 25, 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as thruster issues on the spacecraft turned what should be a express mission to the ISS into a two-day flight and delayed docking to the ISS until March 27th
.On March 16th, 2014, a debris avoidance maneuver was performed (a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM)), to provide a healthy margin of clearance from the projected path of a piece of Russian METEOR 2-5 satellite debris. The maneuver was performed during that the crew was asleep and lasted 7 minutes and 9 seconds via the Progress 54 thrusters. Further experimentations have been performed about autonomous refueling and repair of satellites too
.On March 10th, 2014, three crewmembers ended a stay aboard the ISS and landed in Kazakhstan with their Soyuz TMA-10 after a five-and-a-half months stay. The departure left room to Expedition 39, with Japanese Koichi Wakata like the commander, and first Japanese commander of the ISS
.The Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo spacecraft was to complete its month-long mission to the orbiting laboratory on Feb. 18, 2014
.The Progress 54 cargo was to launch Feb. 5, 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on an expedited, six-hour journey to the space station, as the previous cargo craft was to be undocked. The Progress 54 is to spend about 2 months at the ISS
.The ISS Progress 52 cargo craft that had arrived at the outpost by last July 2013 was undocked on Feb. 3, 2014 to begin several days of tests to study thermal effects of space on its attitude control system before a destructive re-entry in the atmosphere on Feb. 11. The move let room at the Pirs module for the arrival of the Progress 54 cargo to launch Feb. 5, 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
.The ISS welcomed the Cygnus, or the first commercial flight by Orbital Sciences Corporation in January 2014. The capsule was docked at the Harmony node as it will be released by mid-February to burn during re-entry in the atmosphere
.A spacewalk occurred on Jan. 27, 2014 as two Russian astronauts completed a camera job left undone in December. Connectivity issues look like they were fixed
.A spacewalk occurred on Dec. 27 to install photographic and scientific equipment on the hull of the space station. The task however was aborted after a Russian flight control team outside of Moscow was unable to receive telemetry data from the video camera which was aiming to broadcast views as seen from the ISS to the general public. The reason for that failure wasn't immediately clear

2013

.On Dec. 24, 2013, the second of two spacewalks spread over a four-day period occurred to change out a degraded pump module on the exterior of the ISS. The ISS had had to be partially shut down since Dec. 11
.A Russian Progress cargo-craft reached to the station on Nov. 29, 2013 as along a 4-day journey, it also flew by the ISS to test an enhanced rendezvous and docking system for future Russian spacecraft
.ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned Earth Nov. 11, 2013 aboard the same Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station on 29 May
.Nine astronauts were aboard the ISS after the Soyuz TMA-11M docked with Expedition 38 crew members Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin, Koichi Wakata and Rick Mastracchio on Nov. 7, 2013. They also brought with them the Olympic Torch of the next 2014 Winter Olympics. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano make returned home on Nov. 10, 2013, marking the end of Expedition 37 and the beginning of Expedition 38 under the command of Kotov. The Olympic Torch was also returned home on that flight
.The Expedition 37 crew was to welcome a Progress cargo craft and they performed a spacewalk
.Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Alexander Misurkin used the Soyuz TMA-08M to leave the station on Sep. 10, 2013 and land in Kazakhstan as a handover had been performed to Expedition 37 at the ISS as three astronauts staid behind
.Two Russian cosmonauts performed two spacewalks on Aug. 16, and Aug. 22 accomplishing varied tasks
.The 4th Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-4 was installed on its berthing port on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station’s Harmony node on August 9th, 2013. The craft departed on Sep. 4, 2013 after a month's stay
.Expedition 36 astronauts performed two spacewalks on July 9 and July 16, 2013 as, among varied tasks they prepared the ISS for a new Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module scheduled to arrive at the station later this year
.On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 lifted off atop a Ariane-5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana with ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, en route to the International Space Station. The craft was discarded in the Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 2, 2013 after a 5-month stay
.The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M spaceship ferried a new crew to the International Space Station from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 28th, 2013 as the docking occurred less than six hours after liftoff, after four Earth orbits. Three astronauts have joined the Expedtion 36, namely NASA's Karen Nyberg, Russia's Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italy's Luca Parmitano
.Three members of the ISS Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, 2013, Canadian Chris Hadfield, Russian Roman Romanenko and NASA Tom Marshburn aboard the Soyuz TMA-07M and they landed safely in Kazakhstan. That departure marks the beginning of Expedition 36, witt Russian Pavel Vinogradov of Roscosmos is in command. NASA Chris Cassidy and Russian Alexander Misurkin are also aboard as three additional crew are to join later
.Two astronauts made on on May 11, 2013 a hastily planned -which is a rare occurrence- spacewalk to fix a serious ammonia leak outside the ISS which had occurred two days ealier, as a pump was changed. ISS Astronaut Chris Hadfield, on a other hand, sang David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' with a guitar in the first music video made in space, in May 2013
.Expedition 34 Russian Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy (like Soyuz Commander) and Kevin Ford of NASA, returned Earth through a Soyuz TMA-06M in Kazakhstan on Mar. 18, 2013 after serving aboard the ISS as members of the Expedition 33 and 34 crews. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, turned station commander, NASA's Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko remained at the ISS and began their turn as Expedition 35 as they will be joined by a new trio of Expedition 35 crew mates on Mar. 28, with Russian Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and NASA's Chris Cassidy scheduled. Those were also scheduled to become the first station crew members to make an expedited trip to the orbiting laboratory. Instead of taking the standard two days to rendezvous and dock with the station, they will need only four orbits and 6 hours to reach the station as the flight will employ rendezvous techniques used recently with three unpiloted Russian Progress cargo spacecraft
. The ISS welcomed its second contracted cargo delivery flight on Mar. 2, 2013 with the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon carrying a treasure trove of cargo, hardware and supplies for the Expedition 34 crew. The Dragon is scheduled to stay more than three weeks at the ISS and then released to splash into the Pacific Ocean as it had launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on the previous day. The rendezvous with the station was delayed a day in the wake of a temporary loss of three of four banks of thrusters after Dragon separated from the Falcon 9 rocket
. NASA Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, successfully occurred January 14-25, 2013 aboard the ISS despite some troubles which did not affect any of the tasks however. The RRM tests demonstrated remotely controlled robots using current-day technology could refuel satellites not designed to be serviced. The tests culminated with the first-of-its-kind robotic fluid transfer. NASA also hopes that RRM technologies may help boost the commercial satellite-servicing industry in both near and distant orbits. The Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, or SSCO, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is the manager of the concept. Other tasks-tests are now to follow

2012

. Varied activities keep on the ISS, of which the main are testing Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, and performing the second test-phase of the Robotics Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment. U.S. and Canadian ground controllers worked in tandem but the test was stalled due to a glitch at the Canadarm2 robotic arm
. Canadian Hadfield, American Marshburn and Russian Romanenko arrived on Dec. 21, 2012 to spend Christmas with their orbiting crewmates, Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin and continue the Expedition 34
. Expedition 33 commander turned control of the ISS to Expedition 34 on Nov. 17, 2012. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 33 commander with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko returned to Earth on Nov. 18, 2012 EST, aboard a Soyuz TMA-05M, making a rare nighttime landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan in Central Asia, the fourth time in the 12-year history of Soyuz flights to the ISS. Expedition 34 is currently composed of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, and NASA Kevin Ford, who arrived at the station late October. Arrival of three new crewmembers is awaited in mid-December with NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko launching Dec. 19
. Two astronauts performed a 6-hour, 38-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on November 1st, 2012 to configure a solar array power chanel and support ground-based troubleshooting of a ammonia leak
. The ISS Progress 49 cargo craft docked with the station’s Zvezda service module at on Oct. 31, 2012 following its successful launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
. The TMA-06M Soyuz ferrying three members of Expedition 33, as it had launched on Oct. 23, 2012 successfully docked to the ISS on Oct. 25, 2012. Crewmembers were Russian, Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskiy, Russe, NASA flight engineer Kevin Ford and Russian flight engineer Evgeny Tarelkin
. The SpaceX Dragon cargo-craft returned safely Earth on Oct. 10th, 2012, parachuting into the Pacific Ocean and completing the first official shipment under a contract with NASA. SpaceX company successfully guided the Dragon down from orbit to a splashdown 250 miles off the Baja California coast. The ship brought back nearly 2,000 pounds of science experiments and old station equipment
. The Commercial Resupply Services,' or CRS-1 mission by a SpaceX cargo-capsule successfully was grasped at the ISS by the robotic arm on October 10th, 2012 after a launch 3 days before. It is scheduled to stay at the outpost during 3 weeks before returning Earth and bring back cargo and experiments
. ESA's third ATV cargo reentered the atmosphere on Oct. 3 after a six-month stay at the ISS. It performed 9 reboosts of the Station
. Expedition 33 is now en cours at the ISS since Sep. 16, 2012 as Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin landed safely in Kazakhstan. Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko continue their stay until Nov. 12 as a newest trio is expected to launch next Oct. 23
. A third spacewalk on Sep. 5, 2012 solved the question of the pair of bolts which had occurred during the second spacewalk of Expedition 32
. 2 spacewalks have been performed. The first spacewalk, on August 20th, 2012 moved the Strela-2 cargo boom from the Pirs docking compartment to the Zarya module to prepare Pirs for its eventual undocking to make room for the docking of the new Russian multipurpose laboratory module to the Zvezda nadir port. A micrometeoroid debris shields on the exterior of the Zvezda service module was also installed. A suspected leaky valve on the International Space Station delayed by one hour the spacewalk. The second spacewalk on August 30th replaced a faulty power relay unit on the station's truss, rig power cables for the arrival late next year of a Russian laboratory module but astronauts had difficulties driving the bolts to secure the replacement unit
. Russian Progress 48 docked at the ISS through the Pirs docking compartment on August 1st, 2012 after just 4 orbits instead of 34 or two days, a exercise designed to test a shortened transit plan to the station for possible use on future crew-ferrying Soyuz
. Japan's Kounotori3 cargo craft (or 'White Stork 3') docked to the ISS on July 27, 2012. It brought among others a remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called the International Space Station SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System, or ISERV. Once installed, the system will be directed by researchers on the ground to acquire imagery of specific areas of the world for disaster analysis and environmental studies. That HTV3 is scheduled to remain docked until in September
. Russian cargo spacecraft Progress 47 undocked from the ISS for a demonstration of a new docking system on July 22, 2012 to be used by both Progress and Soyuz. The new automated rendezvous system, known as Kurs-NA, will use a single antenna, which will allow four others to be removed. The Kurs-NA-enabled Progress and Soyuz spacecraft will have only three antennas, half as many as the current versions. Kurs-NA also will use less power. The re-docking was postponed however due to an apparent failure in the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system
. Three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the ISS and returned safely to Earth Sunday, July 1, 2012. Command of Expedition 32 was passed to Russian Gennady Padalka, who remains aboard the station with NASA Joe Acaba and Russian Sergei Revin. NASA Sunita Williams, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide joined the outpost on July 17 after a launch July 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-05M. They docked to the Rassvet module
. By June 2012, the ISS crew has further advanced the practibility of robotically repairing and refueling satellites in orbit, especially those not built with servicing in mind and allowing to extend their lifespan. Supporting the assembly of large structures on orbit, and mitigate orbital debris, are among other benefits. Flight controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Canadian Space Agency’s control center in St. Hubert, Quebec are involved in such remotely controlled operations. The astronauts controlled Dextre to retrieve the RRM Multifunction Tool
. The 3 last members of the Expedition 31 have reached the ISS on May 17th, 2012, with Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin welcomed aboard the space station after a two-day journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan aboard a TMA-04M Soyuz. That crew composition is to last unter next July 1st, 2012
. The Expedition 31 has begun its shift at the ISS since late April 2012 when the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin left the ISS, ending Expedition 30. Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre are scheduled to be joined in mid-May by Flight Engineers Gennady Padalka, Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin who will launch and arrive in the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. First three said above will continue their stay aboard the orbital laboratory until July 1, 2012

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