Events

SpaceX AX-2 Crew Hatch Close

Axiom-2 Crew closed hatch on dragon in preparation for undocking

ISS

SpaceX AX-2 Crew Dragon Undocking

The AX-2 Crew Dragon will undock from the International Space Station, carrying Axiom Space Mission 2 commander Peggy Whitson and three passengers. It will then reenter the Earth's atmosphere and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.

International Space Station

SpaceX CRS-28 Science Highlights Media Teleconference

NASA and SpaceX will hold a teleconference about scientific payloads that will be launched to the International Space Station onboard the SpaceX CRS-28 mission.

SpaceX AX-2 Crew Dragon Splashdown

The AX-2 Crew Dragon will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing Axiom Space Mission 2 commander Peggy Whitson and three passengers back to Earth after spending a few days on the International Space Station.

Gulf of Mexico, southwest of Pensacola, FL, USA

US EVA-87 & 88 Preview Press Briefing

NASA will discuss the upcoming spacewalks during a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 1 2023. News conference participants are Dina Contella, Diane Dailey and Megan Shutilka.

RS-25 Engine Test

NASA will conduct an RS-25 engine test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

SpaceX AX-2 Post Mission Press Conference

After returning to Earth from a 10-day mission in space, the astronauts of the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) will participate in a press conference to share their experience and highlight the work conducted during the second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-2 crew includes Axiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight and Commander Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, from the Saudi Space Commission (SSC). Both are members of the inaugural Saudi national astronaut class.

Boeing Starliner CFT Media Teleconference

NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference to provide an update on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

SpaceX CRS-28 Pre-Launch Media Teleconference

NASA and SpaceX will hold a pre-launch media teleconference ahead of the CRS-28 resupply mission towards the International Space Station.

Shenzhou 15 Landing

The Shenzhou 15 Descent Capsule will land in the desert near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China, bringing Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu back to Earth after spending six months in orbit as part of the fourth mission to the Chinese Space Station.

Near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Psyche Independent Review Media Teleconference

Leaders from NASA, the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the board will discuss progress in addressing issues that led to the mission’s launch delay.

CRS-28 Dragon Docking

Following its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-28 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.

International Space Station

Vulcan Cert-1 Flight Readiness Firing (FRF)

United Launch Alliance (ULA)'s first Vulcan rocket will perform a test firing of the 1st stage BE-4 engines ahead of its first launch in summer 2023.

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

RS-25 Engine Test

NASA will conduct an RS-25 engine test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

US EVA-87

NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg will exit the station’s Quest airlock to install an upgraded IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1A power channel on the starboard truss of the station.

International Space Station

US EVA-88

NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg will exit the station’s Quest airlock to install an upgraded IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1B power channel on the starboard truss of the station.

International Space Station

RS-25 Engine Test

NASA will conduct an RS-25 engine test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

BepiColombo Mercury Flyby

Third of six Mercury flybys of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission before entering orbit around its destination planet in 2025.

Mercury

Russian EVA-59

ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin will perform an EVA outside the International Space Station to remove experiment hardware and install new data transmission hardware.

International Space Station

RS-25 Engine Test

NASA is set to perform the last in a series of hot fires of the RS-25 engine to evaluate the performance of newly designed parts. The test article is RS-25E SN 10001, and the test will last 500 seconds with a max throttle of 113%.

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi