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Roscosmos Head Oleg Ostapenko during his visit to Vostochny spaceport was informed that the facilities for Vostochny spaceport have been entirely produced and there is no schedule delay.

On 26th of July at 08/05 DMT the connection with space vehicle “Foton-M” was re-established. According to RSC “Progress” the state of all the systems of “Foton-M” is nominal and it continues performing its flight tasks.

Two railroad trains with the first heavy booster “Angara-A5” parts arrived today to Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.

25th of July 2014 is the 30th anniversary of the first in the world space walk performed by a woman. Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut, conducted and EVA on July 25, 1984.

Soyuz-U booster with “Progress M-24M” cargo vehicle was launched to the ISS from Baikonur spaceport on July 24 at 01.44 Moscow time. At 07.31 Moscow time the vehicle successfully docked with the docking compartment “Pirs” of the ISS Russian segment in accordance with the short 6-hours rendezvous scheme.

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

Soyuz-U with Progress M-24M was rolled out to the launchpad on Baikonur the launch is scheduled for 01.44, Moscow time, July 24.

According to prelaunch preparations schedule Soyuz-U with Progress M-24M was rolled out to #1 launching pad of Baikonur spaceport (Gagarin launch).

Progress M-23M cargo vehicle will undock from the ISS on Tusday and perform the flight to conduct scientific experiment.

Russian biosatellite Foton-M with 5 geckoes, fruit flies, higher plants’ seeds and other biological materials onboard was launched with the help of Soyuz-2.1a booster from Baikonur spaceport.