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60 years ago on May 6, 1955 the first building on the territory of Baikonur City was laid. The city was designated for spaceport specialists to live and had different names in different times: Zarya town , Zvezdograd town, Leninsk city. Since December 1995 its official name is Baikonur city.

According to Roscosmos specialists’ calculations Progress M-27M cargo vehicle launched on April 28, 2015 will re-enter the atmosphere in the time period from 01:23 to 21:55, Moscow time. A day before the factored moment Roscosmos will report more precise data on time and possible region of Progress debris fall.

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.

Hero of Soviet union, Hero of the Russian Federation USSR pilot and cosmonaut Valery Polyakov celebrated his Birthday yesterday, on April 27. Valery Polyakov set up the world’s record having performed the longest space flight in the history of mankind lasting for 437 days.

On April 26, 2015, according to the decision taken by State Commission rocket and space industry launching crews rolled-out Soyuz-2.1a booster with progress M-27M cargo vehicle to the launching pad #31 of Baikonur spaceport. The rocket was installed and the specialists started working in accordance with the first launching day schedule.

At 09.41, Moscow time. April 25, 2015, Progress M-25M cargo vehicle undocked from the station.

Roscosmos plans 10 launches from vostochny spaceport for 2025, - as stated in Russian Federal Space Program draft for 2016-2025.

The first launch of Angara-A5V heavy booster with test payload will be performed from Vostochny spaceport in 2023, - as stated in Russian Federal Space program draft for 2016-2025.