The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Progress MS-10 cargo ship is being prepared for launch at Baikonur.
The main and backup crews of ISS-58/59 undergo comprehensive training and pass exams at the Gagarin Central Research Center.
The Parker probe passed at a distance of 24 million km from the Sun.
The Mayor of Moscow awarded the status of a technopark to the Scientific and Production Corporation "Precision Instrument Systems" (SPP).
One line:
- Eight Protons from the Khrunichev CC by the end of 2018;
- S7 Company plans to build a reusable Soyuz 7SL launch vehicle;
- Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia;
- Music of Mars;
- Fyodor Yurchikhin has been appointed President of the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNH;
- Reconstruction of the launch complex of the Zenit launch vehicle for the new Soyuz-5 medium-class rocket and the Baiterek program has begun at Baikonur;
- SpaceX modifies the upper stage of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle;
- The Japanese space Agency "Jaxa" has returned to Earth the descent capsule of the Konotori-7 space truck;
- Commercial launch from New Zealand, CubeSat satellites have been successfully launched into orbit.
Chronograph: "Venus-2" and "Venus-3".
Astrophoto of the week: California nebula, NGC 1672 galaxy, Mars' "loop".
Personnel:
Kononenko O.D. - test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation, Hero of Turkmenistan. E.S. McClain is an American test pilot, NASA astronaut. Saint-Jacques D. is a Canadian doctor, pilot, astrophysicist, astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency. Skvortsov A.A. - fighter pilot, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. L.S. Parmitano is an Italian test pilot, astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA). E.R. Morgan is a retired colonel of the US Army, a military doctor, a NASA astronaut. Sobyanin S.S. - Candidate of Law, statesman and politician, Governor of the Tyumen Region (2001-2005), Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (2005-2008), Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2008-2010), Mayor of Moscow (since 2010). Rogozin D.O. - statesman, diplomat, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (2011-2018), Director General of Roscosmos (2018-2022). Yurchikhin F.N. - pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Ryzhikov S.N. -- test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.