Mark Garcia

3 days ago | nasa.gov | Mark Garcia

A cargo-packed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is orbiting Earth today heading toward the International Space Station for a docking on Tuesday. The Expedition 73 crew prepared on Monday for Dragon’s arrival and also reviewed procedures for an upcoming spacewalk. Approximately 6,700 pounds of new science experiments and supplies are on the way to the orbital lab following Dragon’s launch at 4:15 a.m. EDT on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

3 days ago | digicastnegros.com | Mark Garcia

A 13-year-old boy drowned in a river in Purok Santan, Brgy. Camugao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, on Monday, April 21. The police identified the victim as alias “Justin”, 13, of Brgy. 8, Kabankalan City. The victim with his sibling and four friends went swimming in the river, Capt. Sammy Gasataya, Kabankalan Deputy Police Chief, said. However, the victim reached a deep section of the river and drowned, Gasataya said. A search and rescue operation was conducted by residents of Brgy.

3 days ago | digicastnegros.com | Mark Garcia

A 76-year-old man who was trapped in his burning house died in Sitio Medina, Brgy. Rizal, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Sunday night, April 20. The victim was Antonio Obinque, 76, the police said. Maj. Ronald Santillan, San Carlos deputy police chief, said the victim lit a kerosene lamp but it fell and the fire spread inside the house. The victim, who lived alone, had difficulty moving that is why he did not manage to get out of his house, the police said.

4 days ago | nasa.gov | Mark Garcia

At 9:20 p.m. EDT (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20), the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. Spanning 220 days in space, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and his crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft launched and docked to the station on Sept.

5 days ago | nasa.gov | Mark Garcia

Expedition 73 began on April 19, 2025, and ends in November. The crew will welcome the Axiom Mission-4 crew and the SpaceX Crew-11 mission while continuing to conduct advanced space research.