Russian billionaire Filaret Galtchev Eurocement Group beneficiary may go to the International Space Station as space tourist. Galchev is willing to take vacant seat in Soyuz spaceship to be launched in September this year. Such possibility appeared after Sarah Brightman’s refusal to go to the ISS.

Roscosmos expects Commission investigating Progress accident cause to complete works by May 22. The period of investigation was increased from May 12 to May 22, by May 22 Commission will present final conclusion, - Federal Space Agency representative reported.

Sarah Brightman’s refusal to go the International Space Station in September 2015 won’t affect the dates of the launch, - Spokesman for space industry reported on May 13. “That won’t affect Soyuz launch. It was planned for September 1 and it is still being planned for September 1”, - the spokesman stated.

British singer Sarah Brightman announced that she is unable to perform a spacefight planned for family reasons (as stated in the message at her official webpage). "Sarah Brightman stated today that she postpones her participation in the upcoming space mission onboard Soyuz TMA-18M. Brightman stated that she has to change her intentions for family reasons and postpones her training and participation in the flight for today".

On May 12, 2015, RSC Energia Director General Deputy and ISS Russian segment flight director V.A.Soloviyov announced that Roscosmos corrected ISS flight program as agreed with partners due to the loss of Progress M-27m cargo vehicle caused by booster accident.

The launch of Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft initially scheduled for May 26 will be shifted to mid-July, - the spokesman for space industry reported.

On May 6, 2015 of 44/45 mission main and back-up crew started passing complex examinational trainings in GCTC.

On Wednesday morning Progress M-26M cargo vehicle docked to the ISS increased medium altitude of station’s orbit by 2 km.

At 10:09:50, Moscow time, April 28, 2015, Progress M-27M cargo vehicle was launched by Soyuz-2.1a booster from Baikonur spaceport. The launch and the flight were nominal, but 1,5 seconds before vehicle was to separate from the 3rd stage of the booster telemetry data was lost. At that it was found out afterwards that the vehicle separated in time.

Progress insertion failure and will take place on May 26, as planned before, - spokesman for Rocket and Space industry reported.