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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.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the United States has created a space command and adopted a new strategy, one of the goals of which is to develop a comprehensive military advantage in space. This is stated on November 16 in the message of the military department.

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of the Roscosmos State Corporation, held a telephone conversation with Bill Nelson, head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On Tuesday, November 16, Rogozin wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a video that proves that the fragments formed after the test of anti-satellite weapons in space do not pose a threat to the International Space Station. As reported to "Lenta.<url>" in the military department, statements about risks to the ISS are not true.

The United States has been engaged in military tests in outer space for more than 60 years. On Tuesday, November 16, Tatyana Kusayko, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, told Izvestia.

Russian-made Orion drones will be able to work through foreign spacecraft. Sergey Bogatikov, CEO of Kronstadt JSC, told about this during the Dubai Airshow 2021 International Airshow, TASS reports.

As the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted, "the fragments formed do not pose any threat to space activities"

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the promising Russian system had successfully hit the target as a result of the tests.

By 2025, NASA will spend $93 billion on the Artemis lunar program. A similar forecast is contained in the report of the Inspector General of the American Space Agency, Paul Martin, reports Space.com .