Ardbeg Scotch Whiskey sent to space 3 years ago will get back to the Earth on September 12.

State Commission meeting held on August 27, 2014 studied the results of scientific experiments conducted onboard Foton-M №4 space device.

Proton-M booster with Briz-M upper stage and Luch space device are being prepared for the launch at Baikonur spaceport.

Russia and USA interrupted cooperation in the field of space exploration particularly the agreement for joint protection against asteroids but it won’t prevent private cooperation B612 Space Exploration Company representative Diane Murphy stated in the interview.

Galileo FOC Space Devices Launch from guiana Space centre was postponed due to the weather conditions.

On August 19, 1960 Sputnik-5 spacecraft with Belka and Strelka was inserted into the orbit. Apart from the dogs mice, insects, plants, fungi, seeds, bacteria and other biological objects were also onboard the spacecraft.

On August 18, 2014 according to the ISS flight schedule ISS-40/41 mission crew members Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev will perform the spacewalk.

RSC Energia specialists arranged for Soyuz TMA-15M crew commander Anton Shkaplerov practical trainings in acordance with the ISS flight program.

Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will pass the trainings in caves of Sardinia Island (Italy) in the period from September 7 to September 20, 2014. European astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronauts Michael Fossum and Scott Tingle are also going to take part in this program.

On August 12 52 years ago Vostok-4 spacecraft with Pavel Popovich onboard was launched to perform the first group flight along with Vostok-3 orbital spacecraft piloted by Andriyan Nickolayev and launched a day earlier.