Upcoming Space Events:

Second of three Earth flybys of NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids.

Event Location: Earth

UTC Event Time: Dec. 12, 2024, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAP-ywsh_HI

The SpaceX CRS-31 Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of its reentry, splashdown and recovery.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Dec. 12, 2024, 4:05 p.m.

Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-spacex-31st-commercial-resupply-services-undocking/

Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner will perform an EVA.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Dec. 19, 2024, 4:10 p.m.

Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/

NASA astronauts will exit the station’s Quest airlock to complete the removal of a faulty electronics box, called a radio frequency group, from a communications antenna on the starboard truss of the space station. The pair also will collect samples for analysis to understand the ability of microorganisms to survive and reproduce on the exterior of the orbiting laboratory.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2024, midnight

Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/

NASA astronauts will remove and replace the external high-definition camera located at camera port nine on the orbiting laboratory. This camera is one of several to provide external views of the space station. Additionally, crew members will complete a cable connection fit check for the alpha magnetic spectrometer, a particle physics experiment on the station’s exterior.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2024, midnight

Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/roscosmos-spacewalk-63/

NASA astronauts will remove and replace a rate gyro assembly, which provides data on the orientation of the space station. Astronauts will then attach a support bracket, called a modification kit, in preparation for future installation of the orbiting laboratory’s next International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array on the 2A power channel on the port truss.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Dec. 31, 2024, midnight

Watch the Event: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-90-cargo-ship-docking/

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

Event Location: Mercury

UTC Event Time: Jan. 9, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on February 18, 2025. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Event Location: Venus

UTC Event Time: Feb. 18, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Flyby of the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohansen asteroid by NASA's Lucy mission.

Event Location: (52246) Donaldjohansen

UTC Event Time: April 20, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

The Starliner-1 spacecraft will dock autonomously to the International Space Station, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station.

Event Location: International Space Station

UTC Event Time: Aug. 31, 2025, midnight

Watch the Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg