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space environment (2019 № 225 ) 13.03.2019

Baikonur is preparing for the launch of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft.

Moscow, Cosmonautics Museum, exhibition "Yuri Gagarin: I am a simple Soviet man" in honor of the cosmonaut's birthday, comments by the curator of the exhibition Tatiana Kalugina and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

A holiday in Gzhatsk, a fragment of Sergei Krikalev's speech.

The exhibition "Two Gagarins" in the Museum of the first flight, comments of the museum employee Mikhail Butrimenko.

One line:

- Flight tests of the Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle;

- The best pictures with the hashtag #gagarin85 will be sent to the ISS;

- Mass and dimensions of the Milky Way;

- The Cheops telescope has completed tests, the launch is scheduled from the Kourou cosmodrome in the fall of 2019, comments Sergey Popov.

Astrophoto of the week: Orion's "bullets", sprites over Australia, Supermoon.

Maslenitsa in Star City.

Personnel

Ovchinin A.N. -- pilot-engineer, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.
T.N. Hague is an American pilot-engineer, NASA astronaut.
Cook (Koch) K.H. is an American physicist, NASA astronaut.
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.
Yurchikhin F.N. -- pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.
Shkaplerov A.N. -- pilot-cosmonaut, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Technical Sciences.
Artemyev O.G. - pilot-cosmonaut, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation.
S.B. Popov is an astrophysicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a leading researcher at the P.K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute.