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State Corporation "Roskosmos" regretfully reports, that on the 86th year of life, cosmonaut № 11, the first man in the world to go into open space, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexey Leonov, died.

From the Baikonur Cosmodrome was launched the "Proton-M" launch vehicle with the European satellite "Eutelsat 5 West B" and the American "MEV-1".

Preparations for the launch of the "Proton-M" launch vehicle with the "Breeze-M" upper stage, the Eutelsat 5 West B telecommunication satellite and the technological satellite Mission Extension Vehicle-1, which is scheduled for October 9, 2019 at 13:17:56 (Moscow time), are ongoing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Today, on October 4,2019, the commander of the "Soyuz MS-12" spacecraft Aleksey Ovchinin and the space flight participant, the first UAE astronaut, Hazza Al Mansouri, arrived at Chkalovsky airport near Moscow.

The crew of the "Soyuz MS-12" spacecraft, undocked on October 3, 2019 at 10:37 (Moscow time) from the International Space Station, safely returned to Earth.

Expeditions EP-19 and ISS-60 are completing work at the International Space Station. The crew of the "Soyuz MS-12" spacecraft (cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, astronaut Nick Hague and space flight participant from the UAE Hazza Al Mansouri) are preparing to return to Earth.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome preparations are continuing for the launch of the "Progress MS-13" cargo spacecraft under the International Space Station program.

The launch of «OneWeb» communications satellites is scheduled for February 08, 2020. Join our space adventures tour to Baikonur with the observation of the launch! During 5-days space tour you will visit all most interesting places of Baikonur and witness all important prelaunch events.

On September 26, 2019, at 10:46 (Moscow time) from the Plesetsk State Testing Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region the crew of the Russian Space Forces successfully launched the "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The crew of the "Soyuz MS-15" spacecraft on September 26, 2019 went aboard the International Space Station.