In recent days, NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Serena Auñón have made some evaluations of a test version of Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft wearing a space suit. For the company, it was an opportunity to introduce to the world the spacecraft being developed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.

Yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex a really special exhibition was inaugurated as it’s about the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis, which has thus become a tourist attraction. Astronauts who have been part of the 33 Atlantis missions attended the ceremony that opened an exhibition of over 8,000 square meters (about 90,000 square feet) dedicated to one of the spaceships that have made the history of space missions.

In China it was morning when the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft landed in Inner Mongolia. The three crew members, Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping, were assisted by the ground staff and are in good physical condition. Their mission started on June 11, so it was the longest Chinese manned mission.

In China it was afternoon when the Chinese Shenzhou 10 spacecraft was successfully launched using a Long March 2F/G rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. After its separation from the second stage of the rocket, the spacecraft regularly entered low Earth orbit to start its mission scheduled to last 15 days.

It was night Europe when, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana, the space cargo ship ATV-4 (Automated Transfer Vehicle 4), named Albert Einstein after the great scientist, was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket. With a total weight of 20,190 kg, it’s the heaviest cargo spacecraft ever launched by ESA to the International Space Station, about 150 kg heavier than the previous ATV, the Edoardo Amaldi.