Telecast
space environment (2018 № 168 ) 01.11.2017

Star City: a solemn meeting of the crew of the Soyuz MS-04; Fyodor Yurchikhin, Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson bring flowers to the monument to Yuri Gagarin.

Virgin Company: tests of the Unity rocket plane, Richard Branson is preparing for a flight into space.

One line:

- The 21st Scientific and Technical Conference was held at RSC Energia;

- Roscosmos proposes to include the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the UNESCO World Heritage List;

- The Soyuz-2.1B launch vehicle was delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome;

- The first private plant of the space industry will be built in Voronezh;

- Vatican-ISS teleconference, cosmonauts' conversation with Pope Francis.

Chronograph: Sergey Krikalev recalls the very first mission to the ISS on November 2, 2000.

Astrophoto of the week: the northern lights in one of the geothermal zones of Iceland, the "Little Ghost" nebula, the constellation of Orion and a meteor shower over Mongolia.

Personnel

Yurchikhin F.N. -- pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.
Fischer D.D. is a colonel in the US Air Force, a NASA astronaut.
P.A. Whitson is an American biochemist, NASA astronaut, the first female commander of the ISS.
Branson R.C.N. is a British entrepreneur, founder of the Virgin Group Corporation.
Francis is the Pope of Rome (since 2013).
P.A. Nespoli is an Italian engineer, astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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.
Gidzenko Yu.P. -- test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.
Shepherd U.M. is an American astronaut, commander of the ISS-1 mission.