Roscosmos State Corporation has finished accepting applications for participation in the open competition for the selection of candidates for the Russian Cosmonaut team, which was announced on June 3, 2019.

Khrunichev Centre is going to resume the production of Rokot light conversion boosters on the basis of RS-18B ballistic missiles currently being removed from combat duty.

Launch pad for Angara will be delivered to Vostochny along the Northern Sea Route by September.

Roscosmos plans to test two new rockets in 2020, reports State Corporation press office Head Vladimir Ustimenko.

60 years ago, on May 15, 1960, a three-stage "Vostok" launch vehicle with an experimental prototype of the "Vostok" spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for flight tests under the program of the first human space flight.

The crew of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, docked to the International Space Station on April 9, 2020 at 17:13 (Moscow time), opened access hatches and went aboard the ISS.

Start Docking Broadcast: April 09, 16:45 Moscow time. https://vk.com/video-30315369_456241357

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-16 crewed spacecraft is scheduled to launch on April 9, 2020 at 08:05:06 UTC. https://youtu.be/GRPGbfxTN94

This morning, on March 18, 2020, the "Soyuz-2.1b" booster rocket with the Fregat upper stage and a new batch of OneWeb communications satellites were rolled out from the Assembly and Testing building and installed at the launch pad of platform № 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

On Monday, March 16, 2020 the "Soyuz-2.1b" launch vehicle with the Glonass-M navigation spacecraft was launched from the launch pad №4 of the Plesetsk cosmodrome by the team of the Aerospace Forces of Russia.