International ISS crew for the first time tasted lettuce grown onboard the station.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko will perform a spacewalk scheduled for August. The cosmonauts will polish several windows of Zvezda service module from the outside, - Mission Control Centre representative reported. Earlier the date extravehicular activities was shofted several times because of Proton M-27M accident since the vehicle was to deliver to the station equipment necessary for the spacewalk.

Roscosmos has concluded a contract with Progress rocket and space centre for Bion-M2 space device project. With the help of this device Russian scientists are going to study zero-gravity and space radiation impact on living organisms, - Institute for Bio-Medical Problems press office reports.

Russia and Brazil discuss development of space debris search complex, - Russian President Vladimir Putin said during negotiations with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday.

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.

Asteroid danger is one of the main threats to the mankind, - stated cosmonaut Alexei Leonov twice Hero of the Soviet Union speaking on Tuesday in London Science Museum.

Russian Space Exhibition postponed due to the lack of guarantees from the British part will open in London on September 18, - British Science Museum press-service reports.

While on Earth coffee nerds pay their respects to this flavorous drink at special section of EXPO universal World Exhibition opened in Milano, coffee conquers the space: the cosmonauts prepared and drank a cup of real espresso onboard the International Space Station.

Hero of Soviet union, Hero of the Russian Federation USSR pilot and cosmonaut Valery Polyakov celebrated his Birthday yesterday, on April 27. Valery Polyakov set up the world’s record having performed the longest space flight in the history of mankind lasting for 437 days.

Space industry specialists go on working in accordance with the ISS flight schedule. On April 14, 2015 in the integration building of #254 launchpad RSC Energia specialists conducted final operations necessary to prepare Progress M-27M cargo vehicle for the filling with propellant components and pressurized gas: loaded cargoes, conducted mass calibration of the vehicle, docked it with the adapter module and placed the vehicle onto the transportation and installation unit that will transport it to the filling area.