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The Russian Federation has questions about the X-37B space drone

The United States is pursuing a course on the use of space for conducting combat operations, testing the latest shock-combat equipment, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

The head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, expressed concern about the safety of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). Nelson said this on Tuesday, November 16.

The last member of the fourth crew was American Jessica Watkins

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) named on Tuesday the last member of the fourth crew who will travel on the Crew Dragon ship of the American company SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) next spring, they became American Jessica Watkins.

The crew members of the International Space Station were also exposed to danger, stressed Thierry Breton

The resulting fragments of the non-operational satellite "Tselina-D" after its destruction during the tests conducted by Russia may pose a threat to the activities of the European Union in space. This statement was made on Tuesday by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton.

The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 (CH2O), which is in lunar orbit, performed an evasion maneuver that allowed avoiding a rendezvous with the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe, the Indian Space Research Organization reports.

The state Corporation Roscosmos and NASA have reached an agreement in principle on the resumption of "cross-over" flights, the text of the agreement is being agreed in the government of the Russian Federation, the executive director of Roscosmos for manned programs Sergey Krikalev told Interfax on Wednesday.

According to the head of the state corporation, this kind of information is of great value - it is needed to assess possible damage and understand the events that have occurred

Roscosmos has prepared photos of the port of Beirut from space, despite the fact that it has not received an official request. This was announced by the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin before signing a memorandum of cooperation between TASS and Roscosmos, implying the creation of an agency office on the International Space Station.

The Cosmonaut Training Center has selected four candidates to prepare for flights on the American Crew Dragon manned spacecraft. This was announced on Wednesday, November 17, by the head of the Center Maxim Kharlamov.

The design will be financed under the state defense order

The development of a draft design for a new Russian orbital station will begin in 2022, it will take about a year and a half, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of Roscosmos for Advanced programs and Science, told Interfax.

During the year, he was searched for more than 243 thousand times

The Cambridge English Dictionary named "perseverance" the word of 2021 in honor of the Mars rover of the same name, which, as part of the mission of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was taken to the Jezero crater on Mars to search for life on the Red Planet.

There was one less inactive satellite in Earth orbit and one and a half thousand more debris. On November 16, the TASS news agency, referring to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, reported on tests during which an inactive Soviet spacecraft was successfully hit.

The United States is concerned about the possible consequences of the scattering of satellite debris shot down by the Russian military, but so far there have been no contacts about this that could be said, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

After separation from the station, the device will remain in orbit for a little less than a month

The undocking from the International Space Station of the American Cygnus cargo ship of Northrop Grumman Corporation, which delivered 3.7 tons of payloads to the station in August, is scheduled for November 20. This was announced on Tuesday on its website by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia, unlike the United States, did not start an arms race. According to the minister, an attempt to start a confrontation in orbit is a challenge from the Pentagon, the Izvestia TV channel reports. He also noted that the work of the Russian Federation in space is not related to the monopolization of near-Earth space.

The indignation on the part of the United States about the tests of the anti-satellite system by Russia is quite cynical, since they themselves shot down their satellite back in 2008, and then the Pentagon itself did not respond to objections from the Russian Federation and China. This was told by military historian Boris Yulin on Wednesday, November 17.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia opposes an arms race in outer space. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense successfully tested an anti-satellite system, the Izvestia TV channel reports. As a result, the inactive device "Tselina-D" was struck. The US State Department accused Russia of creating a threat.

The main crew of the spacecraft includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano

The interdepartmental commission at the meeting recommended approving the main and backup crews of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft and continuing their preparation for the flight to Baikonur, the press service of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CPC) told TASS on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the United States and its allies will work out a joint response to the anti-satellite weapons test conducted by Russia on Monday.

On November 15, Russia conducted tests, as a result of which the inactive Russian spacecraft "Tselina-D", which had been in orbit since 1982, was hit. This was reported to Lenta.<url>" in the press service of the Ministry of Defense.

According to American experts, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States will spend $93 billion on the Artemis lunar program by 2025. Earlier it became known that the landing of astronauts on the Earth's satellite will take place no earlier than 2025.