Russia and China have signed a memorandum on the creation of a lunar station.
The finalists of the selection for the "Challenge" project have been determined.
Key tests of the ExoMars-2022 project.
Chronograph: March 9 is Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin's birthday.
Smolensk region, Gagarin city: the 48th socio-scientific "Gagarin Readings".
Interview: Sergey Krikalev, Anatoly Ivanishin, Tamara Filatova (Yuri Gagarin's niece).
One line:
- Dmitry Rogozin's meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador to Russia and Khab Nasr;
- 25 thousand supermassive black holes on the map of the northern sky;
- The asteroid Apophis flew at the closest distance from Earth in 8 years;
- New photos of the surface of Mars from the Tianwen-1 probe.
Vesta is the brightest asteroid in 2021.
Astrophoto of the week: Mars in Taurus, the Veil nebula or the Fishing Net, stars above the Sicilian volcano Etna.
Personnel:
Rogozin D.O. - statesman, diplomat, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2011-2018), Director General of Roscosmos (2018-2022). Gagarin Yu.A. - cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. Krikalev S.K. is an aviation athlete, cosmonaut, development engineer, candidate of Psychological Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky. Ivanishin A.A. - pilot-cosmonaut, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.