The International Day of Cosmonautics April 12 public figures, human rights activists, entrepreneurs recorded a video message of congratulations and expressed their wishes that should change in the space industry in the coming year. Maria Bast, chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, recalled the unresolved issue of Russian cosmonautics lack of gender equality. For example, that in the history of Soviet-Russian space exploration no more than five women were admitted t...

The idea of creating a non-governmental Earth orbit space station "Mir-2" belongs to the Russian consortium "Space Technology", which partners are investors from around the world, have joined forces to launch the implementation of programs of manned orbital complex "Mir-2". June 15, 2016 a meeting of the supervisory board of the consortium, "Space Technology", which can be regarded as a landmark in international space exploration. During the meeting, it was approved by the "Mir-2" program of co...