space environment №225 13.03.2019 (2019)

Baikonur is preparing for the launch of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft.

Moscow, Cosmonautics Museum, exhibition "Yuri Gagarin: I am a simple Soviet man" in honor of the cosmonaut's birthday, comments by the curator of the exhibition Tatiana Kalugina and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

A holiday in Gzhatsk, a fragment of Sergei Krikalev's speech.

The exhibition "Two Gagarins" in the Museum of the first flight, comments of the museum employee Mikhail Butrimenko.

One line:

- Flight tests of the Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle;

- The best pictures with the hashtag #gagarin85 will be sent to the ISS;

- Mass and dimensions of the Milky Way;

- The Cheops telescope has completed tests, the launch is scheduled from the Kourou cosmodrome in the fall of 2019, comments Sergey Popov.

Astrophoto of the week: Orion's "bullets", sprites over Australia, Supermoon.

Maslenitsa in Star City.