A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket powered by a Soviet NK-33 engine has successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
The Chinese space station "Heavenly Palace" has been taken out of orbit.
One line:
- The Falcon-9 launch vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral and launched the Dragon spacecraft with cargo for the ISS into space, the docking was successful;
- CENKI employees work in Kuru;
- The FIDAE-2018 International Aerospace Exhibition opened in Santiago;
- The Milky Way is increasing in size.
Chronograph: automatic station "Luna-10", the first artificial satellite of the Moon.
Astrophoto of the week: Saturn measuring complex at Baikonur, NGC 2023 nebula, "I brought you the Moon".
"The cosmos is us."
On April 12, many schools will host a traditional Gagarin lesson.
Press conference at the Journalist's House (Vladimir Solovyov, Boris Volynov, Yuri Lonchakov).
Personnel:
Volynov B.V. - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Lonchakov Yu.V. -- Doctor of Technical Sciences, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Solovyov V.G. is a Russian journalist, political commentator, TV presenter, chairman of the Union of Journalists of Russia.