Spacefarer Weekly

🚀 Spacefarer Weekly 🚀

Number of people currently in space:

Comings and Goings

• SpaceX Crew Dragon Crew-11 (Zena Cardman/NASA, Mike Fincke/NASA, Kimiya Yui/JAXA, Oleg Platonov/Roscosmos) undocked from ISS on January 14 and splashed down off San Diego on January 15 due to medical issue.

Current Space Occupants
ISS Expedition 74: 3 spacefarers

• Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Roscosmos/Russia) - Commander
• Sergei Mikayev (Roscosmos/Russia) - Flight Engineer
• Christopher Williams (NASA/USA) - Flight Engineer

What Our Spacefarers Have Been Up To
Key activities across occupied locations:

• Crew-11 conducted departure preparations, cargo packing, and hardware transfer on January 13.
• Crew-11 undocked from ISS Harmony module on January 14 at 5:20 p.m. EST (22:20 UTC).
• Crew-11 completed splashdown on January 15 at 3:41 a.m. EST (08:41 UTC) after 167 days.
• Remaining Expedition 74 crew continued research, maintenance, and operations awaiting new arrivals.
• Routine ISS operations proceeded with three crew members post-departure.

Launches This Week
There have been no crewed launches this week.

Coming up next:
Artemis 2 (Orion (Integrity) on Space Launch System (SLS)) to Beyond LEO, NET February 7 from LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center. First crewed Artemis mission; lunar flyby mission (~10 days); splashdown in Pacific Ocean.

Safe travels to all our spacefarers.🚀