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    CRS-35

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  2. Photo: NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/John Kraus / Public domain

    SpaceX CRS-35

    The last two roll-out solar arrays for the space station

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    SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission launched an uncrewed cargo Dragon on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on 13 October 2026, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. Among it were the final two iROSA roll-out solar arrays.

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  3. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Alyssa Bankston / Public domain

    Crew-13

    Dragon Grace takes over the station crew

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    Crew-13 launched on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 on 1 October 2026 in the Dragon Grace capsule, carrying Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk and cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov to the International Space Station. NASA said the capsule was on course to dock in under eight hours, a record pace for Dragon.

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  4. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Alyssa Bankston / Public domain

    SpaceX Crew-13

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  5. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    Progress 96

    A Russian cargo ship, and a three-day chase to the station

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    Progress 96 was an uncrewed Russian cargo ship that launched on a Soyuz 2.1b from Baikonur on 16 September 2026 with 2.8 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the International Space Station. It docked to the Poisk module on 19 September, two minutes ahead of schedule, after a three-day, 49-orbit rendezvous.

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  6. Photo: NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain

    Northrop Grumman CRS-24

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  7. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain

    Psyche

    A metal-rich asteroid, reached by way of Mars

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    Psyche is a NASA spacecraft that launched on 13 October 2023 to orbit an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich body in the main belt that may be the exposed core of a planetary building block. On 15 May 2026 it flew past Mars, which bent its path toward the asteroid, where it is due to arrive in 2029.

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  8. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Crew-7

    The first Dragon crew drawn from four space agencies

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    Crew-7 launched on 26 August 2023 from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon 9, carrying Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of ESA, Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos. Their Dragon Endurance docked autonomously with the International Space Station on 27 August.

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  9. Photo: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Public domain

    Euclid

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  10. Photo: Joel Kowsky / Public domain

    Crew-6

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  11. Photo: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham / Public domain (US government work)

    James Webb Space Telescope

    A Christmas Day launch to a point a million miles away

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    The James Webb Space Telescope launched on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana on 25 December 2021 and travelled to the Sun-Earth L2 point, about a million miles from Earth. Its tennis-court-sized sunshield and 18-segment gold mirror unfolded on the way, and its first science images were released in July 2022.

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  12. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    Crew-2

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