Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov was approved for September flight to the ISS.

On July 3, 2015, at 07.55, Moscow time, Russian aerospace industry launching crews successfully launched Soyuz-U booster with progress M-28M cargo vehicle from #1 launchpad of Baikonur spaceport.

Stock of food and water stored onboard the ISS will enable the crew to wait for the next Progress M-28M cargo vehicle arriving on July 5, - Russian ISS segment flight director Vladimir Solovyov said.

Progress M-28M cargo vehicle to be launched to the ISS on July 3 was sent for general assembling, - Roscosmos reports. The vehicle is to be orbited not by Soyuz 2.1a booster used for the previous launch that was a failure but tried-and-true Soyuz-U, - Mission Control Centre specifies.

On June 28, 22.42 UTC (June 29, 01.42, Moscow time) Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka set a new world record in overall space flight time breaking the previous Sergey Krikalyov’s record (803 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes).

Roscosmos has signed a contract with French Arianespace Copany and British OneWeb for 21 commercial launches of 672 satellites to be performed with the help of Soyuz booster as from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana and from Baikonur, - Federal Space Agency reports.

American booster Falcon 9 produced by SpaceX Company failed to reacth the International Space Station exploding 2 minutes 19 seconds after the lift-off and that was a serious blow for NASA, - Breitbart news website reports.

Airbus Defence and Space Khrunichev Centre started negotiating the use of Angara booster instead Rokot, - the spokesman reports.

Foreign-made compounds phase-out program for Russian Luna-25 researcher is complete, - Lavochkin Scientific Association representative reported at Le Bourget-2015 International Air show.

ISS medium altitude successfully increased to create optimal ballistic conditions for the docking with Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft carrying new mission crew members onboard, - MCC representative reported.