On Monday, January 19, space flight participant Sarah Brightman who will be a crew member of Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft started her training in Gagarin Cosmonaut training Centre.

Russian rocket producer Energiya President Vladimir Solntsev and US Orbital Sciences Corporation General Director David Thompson signed a direct contract worth around $1 billion on the delivery to the United States of engines produced by Energomash (a subsidiary of Energiya).

Vegitel Tour Company continues the program of Zero Gravity flights onboard Ilyushin-76 MDK, the world's biggest plane able to create Zero-G. So you've got a great opportunity to feel like real astronauts. The next flight is scheduled for August 25, 2015.

Japanese entrepreneur Satoshi Takamatsu to be Sarah Brightman back-up crew member will start training in Star City late this month.

Preparations for the final launches in 2014 are under way at Baikonur. Today, on December 2014, rocket and space industry specialists rolled out two boosters to the launching pads of the spaceport.

On December 23, 2014 at 08.57, Moscow time, The first Angara-A5 heavy booster was successfully launched from Plesetsk spaceport. It means that now Russia has a new up-to-date ecologically friendly heavy booster, - Roscosmos Head Oleg Ostapenko stated.

Russian Soyuz-ST booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and four European 03b satellites to provide internet communication for the distant parts of the world was successfully launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

Cosmonaut candidate Anna Kikina gained test cosmonaut qualification, - Roscosmos reports.

NPO Energomash concluded with American Corporation Orbital Science a contract for delivery of RD-181 engines to be used for the first stage of Antares rocket from 2015.

Two Russian satellites Lomonosov and Aist will be delivered to Vostochny spaceport in June-July 2015, - Roscosmos Head Oleg Ostapenko stated.