Moscow, the opening of the photo exhibition "803 days in Earth orbit" on Strastnoy Boulevard for the 60th anniversary of Sergei Krikalev.
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, space Control system.
One line:
- China has put two Beidou navigation satellites into orbit;
- India, space launch plans for the second half of 2018;
- Cargo ships Progress MS-08 (Russia) and Konotori-7 (Japan);
- Altai Optical and Laser Center named after G.S. Titov;
- The first tennis match on the ISS.
Chronograph: 100 years of S.A. Afanasyev.
Fragments of the documentary film "The Century of Afanasyev" by the Roscosmos television studio.
Astrophoto of the week: view from the Hayabusa-2 probe to the Ryugu asteroid, the three-part M20 nebula, the Orion nebula.
Personnel:
Krikalev S.K. is an aviation athlete, cosmonaut, development engineer, candidate of Psychological Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K.E.Tsiolkovsky. Artemyev O.G. - pilot-cosmonaut, test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Prokopyev S.V. -- test cosmonaut, Hero of the Russian Federation. Gerst A. is a German scientist, Doctor of Natural Sciences, astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA). E.D. Feustel is an American geophysicist, seismologist, and NASA astronaut. Afanasyev S.A. - Soviet statesman, Minister of General Engineering of the USSR (1965-1983), Minister of Heavy and Transport Engineering of the USSR (1983-1987), twice Hero of Socialist Labor.