The cosmonauts passed the training on Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft manual docking with the ISS on Don-Soyuz simulator. This week main and back-up crews are to pass one more examinational training so called ”Standard flight day”, on September 3 and 4 ISS-41/42 will start complex training summing up the results of their preparations in Star City.

ISS-41/42 mission main and back-up crews go on with their examinational session. After that cosmonauts and astronauts will start complex examinational trainings summing up the results of their preparations in Star City.

Russia and USA interrupted cooperation in the field of space exploration particularly the agreement for joint protection against asteroids but it won’t prevent private cooperation B612 Space Exploration Company representative Diane Murphy stated in the interview.

Russian Space Agency plans to design a space device to clean geostationary orbit from dead satellites and upper stages.

oyuz TMA-14M manned spacecraft is being prepared for the leak tests at Baikonur spaceport.

State Commission meeting approved Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev, Elena Serova, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko for the spaceflight.

Soyuz-ST-B booster with Fregat-MT upper stage and two European Galileo FOC space devices will be launched from Guiana Space Centre tomorow, on august 21, at 16.31, Moscow time.

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.

On August 18, 2014 according to the ISS flight schedule ISS-40/41 mission crew members Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev will perform the spacewalk.

Soyuz TMA-15M manned spacecraft delivered to Baikonur on August 15.