Yusaku Maezawa added that the training in weightlessness made the strongest impression on him

Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa said that he admired the spacesuit produced by NPP Zvezda, but admitted that it was very hot to train in it.

Roscosmos reported that it will move away from the ISS at a distance of up to 185 km

The Progress MS-17 cargo ship will be reconnected from the Search module to the Science module. He will spend 29 hours in an autonomous flight, Roscosmos said in a statement released on Thursday.

Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome in 2021 are no longer expected

Launches of Russian rockets from the Vostochny cosmodrome are no longer expected this year. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.

Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the cosmodrome

In 2022, Roscosmos will continue to carry out commercial launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome, their number will be the same as in 2021 - about five. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

According to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, this will give additional energy and other operational advantages

Work on the transition of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region to the new naphthyl fuel will begin on Friday. This decision was made during a meeting of the State Commission on Thursday, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.

A promising US helicopter, presented by Lockheed Martin, was able to reach a speed of almost 460 kilometers per hour. In the video that the company published on its website, you can watch this.

The aeroplatform is capable of climbing to a height of 20-40 km and moving along a given route for several months

Specialists of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR, Tomsk) have developed a new type of high-altitude balloon that can reduce the cost of scientific research in the stratosphere. This was announced on Thursday by the press service of the university.

The total volume of investments under the concession agreement will exceed 10 billion rubles

The Russian Military Department and Gazprom PJSC have concluded a concession agreement on the reconstruction of the Levashovo airfield (Leningrad Region), which will allow it to be used in the interests of the civil air fleet.

The Yak-18T aircraft with an APD-500 aircraft engine, created on the basis of an engine from Aurus series cars, passed pre-flight tests - performed a complex of runs and approaches at the airfield, the press service of the Central Institute of Aviation Engine Engineering named after P.I. Baranov (CIAM, part of the N.E. Zhukovsky Institute) told RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to create a special fire squadron in the country, which will include 22 aircraft and helicopters. This was reported on October 14 by RIA Novosti with reference to sources.

The 47th Bomber Aviation Regiment will be relocated to Voronezh by the end of 2021 on Su-34 aircraft, which is currently based in Buturlinovka, Voronezh Region. This was reported to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his working trip, Interfax reports on Thursday, October 14.

The Su-57 is designed to destroy all types of air, ground and surface targets

More than 70 Su-57 aircraft will be delivered to the Russian army by 2027, including several in 2021, Rostec said, commenting on an article by National Interest, which claims that the fifth-generation Russian Su-57 fighter is unlikely to enter service until 2027.

Russian fifth-generation aircraft do not give rest to the West, so the Su-57 and the Checkmate regularly become the target of information stuffing. This was reported to Izvestia on Thursday, October 14, at Rostec.

China has already defeated the United States in an arms race using cyber capabilities, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), The Drive reports a statement by former Pentagon software director Nicholas Chaillan.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Israeli Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the State Department reports. "The Secretary of State and the Foreign Minister discussed a number of issues, including Iran, Syria and the People's Republic of China," the statement said.

Pentagon officials will discuss in October the possibility of deploying counter-terrorism forces in Uzbekistan for potential strikes against extremist positions in Afghanistan. This was reported on Wednesday, October 13, by Politico, citing sources.

The strengthening of NATO and the United States leads to the preservation of a high level of tension in Eastern Europe, said Anatoly Sidorov, chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.

The creation of the AUKUS bloc (Australia, the USA and the UK) undermines regional stability, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes.

The US army should give priority to Russia, not China, writes the American edition of Breaking Defense.

The US army was advised to take Russia's ground forces seriously.

The Breaking Defense publication criticized the Pentagon's policy. According to Daniel Gur, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a former official of the US Department of Defense, America has focused too much on the Chinese threat in the Pacific region, weakening attention to Russia. However, this short-sightedness against the background of the growing power of the Russian ground forces is fraught with problems in Europe.