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Welcome to Space to Ground, I'm Kayla LaFrance. This week there's been a lot of

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traffic coming and going around the
International Space Station. Late Monday

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an uncrewed Soyuz MS 14 spacecraft
successfully docked to the station on

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its second attempt. The unpiloted Soyuz
launch last Wednesday August 24th from

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the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
and originally rendezvous with the

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station on Saturday for an autonomous
docking. This first attempt was aborted

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after a problem was discovered in the
rendezvous equipment at his originally

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planned docking port. For its second
attempt the uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft

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successfully docked to the AFT port of
the Zvezda service, module bringing with

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it 1,450 pounds of cargo and an

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experimental 350 pound humanoid robot
known as the Skybot F-850.

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This week also brought a farewell to the SpaceX 18
Dragon.  After a 33 day mission to the

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International Space Station the Dragon
capsule was released from the Canadarm2

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to begin a six-hour trip back home.
Splashing down in the Pacific Ocean the

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Dragon 18 capsule returned nearly 2700
pounds of hardware and science

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experiments, completing this particular
capsules third mission to the station.

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On Monday, NASA astronaut Christian Koch
reached the halfway point of her 328 day mission.

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Koch arrived to the station in
a Soyuz spacecraft 164 days ago on

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March 14th. Since arriving she's been
busy performing science experiments and

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flight maintenance cargo ops and much
more.

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The 164 days left in her mission will
add up to become the longest duration

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single flight for a woman. Koch
celebrated this midpoint with a video of

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celebration of Women's Equality Day and
the female space pioneers who paved the

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way for her record-setting mission. "I
have truly been inspired by the struggle

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and triumph of so many women who dared
to break new ground in all aspects of

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society. I even have the honor of being
among those who are paving the way for

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the first women to set foot on the moon
NASA's Artemis program and I hope to