One-year ISS mission crew stood the test by 20 degrees frost im the forest of Moscow region, – GCTC press-office…

Russian Cosmonauts completed their preflight trainings in NASA Johnson Space Centre on January 23, 2014

The work was accomplished in accordance with “Napor-mini RSA” experiment conditions prepared for experimental practice of use of small-sized radio detector with synthesized facilities for natural resource management, ecological control and monitoring of possible emergency situations on the Earth.

Space Industry specialists go on preparing Progress M-22M cargo vehicle for the launch according to ISS provision program at Baikonur spaceport.

In accordance with training conditions the crew has to perform the following operations: changing clothes inside the descent module, building shelters, signaling to search aircrafts, medical treatment of the injured person and cooperation with the search and rescue teams.

Medium altitude of the ISS orbit was increased by about 2 km with the help of docked with the ISS…

ISS reboost maneuver was to take place on January 16 to create optimal conditions for Progress M-22M cargo vehicle launched from Baikonur on February 5 docking with the ISS. However today the spokesman for space industry reported that Station reboost maneuver scheduled for January 16 was shifted to January 18 because of space debris.

Roscosmos: main threats are first of all the danger of new armament race in the space, near-Earth space contamination increasing the opportunity of satellites collision and asteroid danger.

During unscheduled spacewalk Russian cosmonauts will have to re-install mid and high resolution cameras on the external surface of the ISS. Doing their previous EVA on December 27 crewmembers failed to complete the entire program: installed cameras didnt work properly.

This Friday, on January 10, 2014 MCC specialists took a decision on unscheduled spacewalks to be performed on January 27…