space environment №174 20.12.2017 (2017)

Soyuz MS-07 docked at the ISS, and the crew boarded the station.

Baikonur, preparation for the last launch of the Zenit series launch vehicle.

Meeting with cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum.

Winter solstice, the onset of astronomical winter.

Chronograph: unmanned orbital rocket plane "Bor-4", the Spiral project, says Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky.

Astrophoto of the week: removal of the launch vehicle to the launch pad, geminids in Canada, the Moon and Venus over the UK.

Do you know?

The darkest and coldest place in the universe is the super void of Eridanus.