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SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour -- carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov -- undocked from the space-facing port of the International Space Station (ISS)'s Harmony module at 2220 UTC on Jan. 14. Endeavor safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 0841 UTC on Jan. 15.

SpaceX’s Crew-11 Dragon Endeavor, carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, autonomously undocked from the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, on 14 January at 2220 UTC. Crew-11 is SpaceX’s eleventh operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Endeavor previously supported NASA’s Crew-3, Crew-5, and Crew-7 missions.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday (Jan. 11) at 1344 UTC. The Falcon 9's first stage landed back at Vandenberg as planned about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on Sunday. It was the fifth mission for this particular booster, according to SpaceX

SpaceX successfully launched the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (CSG-FM3) satellite on January 2, 2026, at 0209 UTC on January 3, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1081) previously supported 20 missions: Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, Transporter-10, EarthCARE, NROL-186, Transporter-13, TRACERS, NROL-48 and 11 Starlink missions. CSG-3 was successfully deployed into orbit

A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0927 UTC(Nov. 27), carrying NASA astronaut Christopher Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev. The spacecraft docked at 1234 UTC with the International Space Station (ISS), and hatch opened at 1516 UTC and the crew welcomed aboard as Expedition 73/74 crew members

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Sentinel-6B satellite from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on Nov. 17, at 0521 UTC. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (B1097) landed on Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, having previously supported two Starlink missions

China's Shenzhou-21 carrying Shenzhou 20 astronauts successfully returned to Earth shortly before 0845 UTC, November 14, touching down at the Dongfeng Landing Site in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region after a 204-day mission aboard the Tiangong space station

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on its second flight, Mission NG-2, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 13, at 2045 UTC, deploying NASA’s ESCAPADE twin spacecraft on a novel trajectory toward Mars. The mission marked the first customer payload launch for New Glenn and achieved a historic milestone with the successful vertical landing of the first-stage booster, GS1-SN002

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky successfully completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 28, beginning at 1420 UTC, to install a suite of service experiments outside the station and relocate a control box for the European Robotic Arm from one workstation to another, among other tasks