ISS crew members will celebrate New year 16 times and dress the New Year tree with soft toys, - Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova reported from the ISS.

On December 11 in accordance with the decision taken by State commission on space complex flight tests the rocket was rolled out to the # 81 launchpad of Baikonur spaceport.

Last weekend specialists started general assembling of Proton-M booster in 92-A50 integration building. The booster will launch Russian Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite in mid-December, - Khrunichev Centre press office reports.

Proton-M booster with Yamal-401 space device will be launched a day earlier: on December 15 instead of December 16, as was planned before, - Roscosmos representative reported.

At the present time aerospace tourism becomes more and more popular. People need new emotions and impressions, they look for unusual solutions. We are lucky to live in the century of technological development, we send men in space, accomplish unbelievable experiments, we use technological facilities 10 years ago possible in science fiction only. Now when we have already discovered new horizons and when the most ancient dream of mankind – to reach the sky came true, it is unforgivable indeed to miss the opportunity to use this privilege.

Preparations for the launch of Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and O3b space devices are under way in Guiana Space Centre (French Guiana).

At Baikonur spaceport specialists go on preparing Proton-M booster with Briz-M upper stage and Russian Yamal-401 telecommunication satellite for the…

Russia will start developing and testing new navigational satellites in 2018, - Aerospace defence Troops commander Lieutenant General Alexander Golovko reported.

Testings of new Russian ecologically friendly booster of Angara series will be finished at Plesetsk spaceport in 2020.

The second Russian new generation navigational satellite Glonass-K was successfully orbited, - Russian Ministry of Defence Aerospace Defence troops press-office representative colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported.