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SpaceX and NASA have proposed to the American astronauts who are currently on the ISS and should soon return to Earth to study "other ways to remove fluids from the body" after the incident with the toilet of the Crew Dragon spacecraft during the previous fully civilian flight. This is reported by RT with reference to the statement of the manager of the NASA commercial crew program, Steve Stitch.

In the assembly and test building of the Baikonur Cosmodrome site No. 31, the blocks of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle were unloaded, which will launch the Soyuz MS-20 transport manned spacecraft into near-Earth orbit in December, the state corporation Roscosmos reported on Saturday.

At the same time, the US Space Agency did not name the dates when they could take place

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Roscosmos may conduct joint training to prepare for cross-flights to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Friday at an online press conference by the head of the NASA manned flight program, Kathy Luders.

The US Vice President will visit the French capital on November 11-12

Strengthening cooperation in space will be one of the topics of the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to Paris on November 11-12. This is stated in a joint communique adopted on Friday following talks in Rome between French and American Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden.

The launch of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in normal mode, the recent powerful solar flare did not affect the plans. This was announced on October 29 by the head of the NASA manned program, Kathy Luders.

The M. N. Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope installed there has sensitive detectors for recording X-ray radiation

The developers of the Spektr-RG space observatory were able to register a stream of charged particles caused by solar flares in order to "reject" them in the future due to the negative impact on the detectors. This is stated in the message of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, distributed on Saturday.

The Samara Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" has assembled the body of the Aist-2T satellite, which will have to create a 3D model of the Earth. This was announced on October 29 by the general director of the company Dmitry Baranov.

The launch of the Ukrainian satellite for remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" was postponed. In the United States, it was reported that the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was postponed to 2022. This is reported by the information and consulting agency Defense Express.

The RD-171MV power unit, known as the Tsar Engine, was sent for assembly as part of the first stage of the Russian promising Soyuz-5 rocket, which should replace the decommissioned Ukrainian Zenit-2 carrier. This was announced on Twitter by the CEO of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

The transaction price will be 2.79 billion rubles

The Board of Directors of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia during the meeting approved the conclusion of a deal with Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) for the manufacture of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft, according to the information disclosure website.

This satellite can be launched in 2022

Kursk Southwestern State University will take part in the work on the first space satellite of Nicaragua, which can be launched in 2022. This was reported on Wednesday by the Nicaraguan government portal El 19 Digital with reference to Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who is now in the republic.

So the head of Tesla and SpaceX responded to the publication that in the event of the introduction of the "tax for billionaires" promoted by the US Democrats, the payments of Elon Musk and the head of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos would be enough to finance a mission to land a man on Mars.

The Mars helicopter "Ingenuity" made its fourteenth flight, thus confirming that the problem with the skew machine has been eliminated. During the flight, the propellers were unscrewed more than before — this means that the drone is able to fly at a lower atmospheric density, NASA tweeted.

According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the launch table for the Angara rocket on Vostochny has been successfully assembled. The first launch of this type of carrier from the cosmodrome was scheduled for 2023.

The experiment on carrying out a surgical operation on board the International Space Station (ISS) was carried out by the Russian crew, including the crew of the film "The Challenge". This is reported by Interfax with reference to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

An experiment to put a robot into orbit is planned to be carried out in 2024

The anthropomorphic robot "Teledroid" will be able to work both inside and outside the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported to TASS by a representative of the Cosmonaut Training Center on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.

Flights will become available to ordinary people, Dmitry Loskutov noted to the company

Prices for commercial space flights will decrease in the 2030s due to increasing competition in the industry. This was stated on Wednesday in an interview with the Emirati agency VAM by the CEO of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on the sidelines of the 72nd International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.

In 2020, 17 launches were carried out from four spaceports

Roscosmos has increased the number of launches of space rockets in 2021 compared to the previous year. This is evidenced by the calculations of TASS.

The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, painted to resemble Khokhloma, put the Progress MS-18 cargo ship into near-Earth orbit. The broadcast is conducted on the website of the state corporation "Roscosmos".

Dmitry Baranov, General Director of the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RCC), said that in the manufacture of Soyuz-5 launch vehicles, specialists will use a new durable and lightweight alloy.