space environment №168 01.11.2017 (2018)

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.