posted 02-27-2025 03:50 PM               

Belyayev's 'candle': ISS cargo ship lifts off with logo for cosmonaut's centennial

Russia celebrated a late cosmonaut's upcoming 100th birthday on Thursday (Feb. 27), by lighting a huge "candle" and delivering "gifts" to his modern-day colleagues living in orbit.

The launch shroud encasing the uncrewed Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91, as NASA refers to it) resupply spacecraft was decorated with a logo commemorating the centennial of Pavel Belyayev's birth. The circular blue and white emblem depicted the cosmonaut, who in 1965 led the world's first mission to perform a spacewalk.

posted 03-01-2025 05:04 PM               

Progress docks to space station

Roscomsos' Progress MS-30 (91P) cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the International Space Station on Saturday (March 1). The link up to aft port of the Zvezda service module occurred at 6:02 p.m. EST (2302 GMT), as the two vehicles were traveling 260 miles (418 km) above the South Atlantic Ocean.