space environment №184 07.03.2018 (2018)

Baikonur, training of the Soyuz MS-08 crew.

Kourou, preparations for the launch of the Soyuz-ST-B with telecommunications apparatus.

USA, testing of the Insight landing module before the launch to Mars.

In a nutshell: - Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration signed an agreement on lunar and deep space exploration; - SpaceX launched the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with a Spanish telecommunications satellite; - Five rocket launches are planned in China.

Chronograph: the first cosmonaut squad "Air Force Group No. 1", recalls Alexey Leonov.

Astrophoto of the week: the Milky Way and the zodiacal light over Denmark, star trails over the Alborz Mountains, the Rosette Nebula.

Did you know?

Women in space (Valentina Tereshkova, Svetlana Savitskaya, Elena Kondakova, Elena Serova and others).