space environment №172 06.12.2017 (2018)

Star City: the crews of the Soyuz MS-07 ship go to Baikonur (Anton Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle, Norishige Kanai), the crew meeting at Baikonur.

NASA's new Rover Rover, the Mars 2020 mission.

The Interdepartmental Commission approved the lists of the main and backup crews of the ISS for 2018.

One line:

- On December 2, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Kosmos-2524 satellite entered the target orbit;

- a smaller copy of the hockey cup and a puck will be delivered to the ISS;

- the first unmanned docking of the new Russian Federation spacecraft with the ISS is scheduled for 2023, the first crewed flight is expected in 2024;

- NASA, computer simulation of the Earth's atmosphere;

- the ISS crew is preparing pizza;

- NASA, the launch of the Voyager 1 probe.

Chronograph: from the history of the Soviet program "Intercosmos", recalls Vladimir Remek.

Astrophoto of the week: the spiral galaxy of the triangle H-33, the Juno probe observes a storm on Jupiter, the northern lights and a night rainbow in the sky over Scotland.