On August 18, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev the spacewalk. The cosmonauts started working at 18.02, Moscow time, and successfully completed the tasks in accordance with the time schedule.

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.

ISS orbit was adjusted with the help of ATV-5 cargo vehicle thrusters on August 14, 2014.

Yesterday on August 12, at 17.30, Moscow time, European cargo space vehicle ATV-5 (Georges Lemaître) docked with Russian service module Zvezda. Station reboost maneuver was scheduled for August 14, 20:58, Moscow time.

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.

The cosmonauts started 3-weeks parachute trainings on August 4.

53 years ago Soviet cosmonaut German Titov performed the spaceflight lasting for 24 hours for the first time in World history.

Soviet space device Kosmos-1151 was deorbited and burned in the dense atmosphere, Russian Aerospace Defence Troops representative Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported on Tuesday.

Unscheduled orbit adjustment maneuver was accomplished to form safe flight course of the station.