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86 years ago, on March 9, 1934, in the village of Klushino, Gzhatsky (now Gagarin) district of the Smolensk region, the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin was born - a special person not only for those who connected their lives with space, but also for all people in the world.

On the 7th of March, 1960 the landmark event in the history of space exploration occurred – exactly on that date the first 12 people were enrolled in the cosmonaut squad.

Ahead of the ISS-63 crews are complex examination exercises. Before cosmonauts and astronauts need to undergo a typical flight day training.

Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman-cosmonaut in the world, Hero of the Soviet Union, candidate of technical sciences, professor of the Air Force Engineering Academy, Major General of Aviation, celebrates her birthday today.

Specialists of the RSC "Energia" (part of the Roskosmos State Corporation), in accordance with the pre-flight test schedule at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, continues to work with the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft.

On February 20, 2020, at 11:24:54 (Moscow time), the "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle with the "Meridian-M" communications satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region.

he Russian members of the main crew of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonauts NikolaY Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin, will be replaced by backups due to medical reasons.

Work continues on the evacuation of fragments of the "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle, which successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on February 7, 2020.

On February 12, 2020, the commander of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Nikolay Tikhonov, and the flight engineer of the ship, Andrey Babkin, performed examination training on the "Don- Soyuz" simulator for manual approaching and re-docking.

As part of the contract with a Human Spaceflight Center of Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO the GCTC on Monday, February 10, 2020, began the planned preparation of Indian candidates for cosmonauts.