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Jessica Meir and Anil Menon spent 6.5 hours outside the International Space Station on Aug. 6 installing mounting hardware for new rollout solar arrays. The upgrade is intended to provide additional power for the station, according to NASA.
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Jessica Meir and Anil Menon spent 6.5 hours outside the International Space Station on Aug. 6 installing mounting hardware for new rollout solar arrays. The upgrade is intended to provide additional power for the station, according to NASA.
NASA and Roscosmos will continue exchanging astronaut seats between Russian Soyuz and U.S. Crew Dragon spacecraft. The agreement does not yet include Boeing’s Starliner, leaving the crew-transport arrangement limited to the two currently participating vehicles.
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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has completed a third evaluation of the EuroSuit intravehicular activity spacesuit prototype aboard the International Space Station. The repeated on-orbit testing advances Europe’s assessment of a domestically developed suit for crew operations and helps validate its design in the space-station environment.
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SpaceX is positioning its Starfall capsule to address microgravity access and point-to-point cargo delivery while the company considers life after Falcon 9. Separately, Boeing says redesign work on CST-100 Starliner is progressing ahead of a potential 2026 cargo mission to the International Space Station.
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International Airlines Group said British Airways captured stronger premium demand as business travelers avoided the Middle East, while the conflict constrained first-half capacity. Fuel costs and an Aer Lingus loss pressured earnings, prompting IAG to hold group capacity flat for 2026 as Vueling pursues savings through its 737 Max transition.
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Roscosmos and NASA confirmed the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft returned safely on July 26, 2026, bringing Expedition 74’s joint U.S.-Russian crew—NASA astronaut Chris Williams plus Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev—down to Kazakhstan after 241 days aboard the ISS. Expedition 75 is set to run into spring 2027.
NASA says astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian cosmonauts will come home from the International Space Station early Sunday, July 26. The agency will livestream the homecoming as the crew departs the orbiting lab for the return to Earth.
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The ISS crew expanded by three with the July 14 arrival of Soyuz MS-29. Following the docking, a U.S. spacewalk concluded repairs to Canadarm2, restoring key station robotics capability alongside the new increment of crew.
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