space environment №219 30.01.2019 (2019)

A round table at the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in honor of the 199th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica.

Antarctica as a unique experimental base for scientists, including space explorers.

Interview fragments: participant of the first Soviet Antarctic expedition Alexander Lisitsyn, Professor Sergey Popov, captain of the 1st rank Mikhail Nenashev.

One line:

- Korolev`s Readings at Bauman Moscow State Technical University;

- The Russian crew of the ISS will increase;

- An American Orion spacecraft with mannequins will be sent to the moon;

- A heavy rover project for exploring the moon;

- "Hayabusa-2" in orbit of the asteroid Ryugu, one of the craters was named "Kolobok";

- India has sent the world's lightest satellite into orbit;

- The company "CosmoCourse", the prospects of space tourism, says the general director of the company Pavel Pushkin.

Andrey Okhlopkov has been appointed CEO of CENKI.

Severodvinsk JSC "Industrial Technologies" at the Vostochny cosmodrome, says Leonid Lozenko, General Director of JSC.

Astrophoto of the week: a gas tail from the spiral galaxy D100 in the constellation Veronica's Hair, the asteroid Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, a new crater on the Moon.

Chronograph: in the footsteps of the film "The Sky is calling" (1959).