space environment №177 17.01.2018 (2018)

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- Preparation for the launch of Soyuz 2.1v on the East;

- NASA postponed the launch of the SpaceX and Boeing spacecraft;

- News of the MSU Space Faculty;

- Space India;

- Virgin conducted the 7th test of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft.

"Amazing Land" by Sergei Ryazansky.

Chronograph: the first docking of ships in space on January 16, 1969, Boris Volynov recalls.

Astrophoto of the week: comet PanSTARRS C/2016 R2 in the constellation Taurus, glacier in Switzerland and Ursa Major, merging galaxies and a black hole.