Космонавт Олег Артемьев

Happy Cosmonautics Day! (video)

April 12, 2021

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Dear Friends!

Today our country and the whole world are celebrating a special jubilee Day of Cosmonautics!

Exactly 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin entered world history forever as the first cosmonaut of the planet, having flown on the Vostok spacecraft!

Its flight lasted 1 hour 48 minutes – this time was enough to understand that there is a place for man in space, and our country proved this by winning the space race!

We are proud of this Day and this victory to this day! Seeing how spacecraft rush into the sky, every time we remember the first in space and say “thank you” to him for not being afraid, passing all the tests and becoming the best, becoming the first!

I sincerely congratulate you on the holiday that embodies the greatest achievement of the scientific progress of our country – the victory of mankind over gravity!

I wish you peace, kindness, warmth, health, happiness, family well-being, the realization of everything conceived, and of course, new discoveries, achievements and victories!

Believe in yourself and you will succeed!

New issue of Russian Cosmos Magazine released (March, 2021)

March 29, 2021

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New issue of Russian Cosmos magazine released (March, 2021)

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At the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A. Gagarin @gctc_official a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission took place, which summed up the results of the crews’ readiness to perform a flight on the Soyuz MS and the Russian segment of the ISS under the programs of the 65th and 66th expeditions

March 25, 2021

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At the Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A. Gagarin @gctc_official a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission took place, which summed up the results of the crews’ readiness to perform a flight on the Soyuz MS and the Russian segment of the ISS under the programs of the 65th and 66th expeditions.

Examination complex trainings passed with excellent marks: the main and backup crews are ready for the flight program.

Prime Crew:

Oleg Novitskiy @novitskiy_iss / cosmonaut of Roscosmos / – Commander of the Soyuz MS TPK, Commander of the ISS-65;
Pyotr Dubrov / Roskosmos cosmonaut / – flight engineer of TPK Soyuz MS, flight engineer of ISS-65/66;
Mark T. Vande Hei (Twitter Astro_Sabot) / NASA astronaut / – flight engineer-2 TPK Soyuz MS, flight engineer ISS-65/66.

Back-up crew:

Anton Shkaplerov @anton_astrey / Roskosmos cosmonaut / – Commander of the Soyuz MS TPK, ISS flight engineer;
Oleg Artemyev @olegmks / cosmonaut of Roscosmos / – flight engineer of TPK Soyuz MS, flight engineer of the ISS;
Anne McClain (Twitter AstroAnnimal) / NASA astronaut / – Flight engineer-2 TPK Soyuz MS, flight engineer of the ISS.

Ahead is the final stage of prelaunch preparation at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The launch of the Soyuz MS-18 is scheduled for April 9, 2021.

This will be the third flight for Oleg Novitsky, and the second for Mark Vande Hei. Peter Dubrov will go into orbit for the first time.