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.

The launch of four Rezonans satellites aimed at Earth’s radiation belt exploration is planned for 2017-2018, - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Anatoly Petrukovich working for the Institute of Space Explorations of Russian Academy of Sciences reported at COSPAR conference held in Moscow.

"An estimated cost of one project aimed at the development of an automatic lunar station is 10 billion rubles (about $280 million). The project is to be completed in five or six years. The manned lunar mission will cost ten times more"

On the 1st of August 2014 at 02.42 Moscow time noncombustible parts of Progress M-23M cargo vehicle were sank in the scheduled southern area of the Pacific Ocean.