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Next week, for the first time, NASA will use a reusable spacecraft and a reusable first stage of a launch vehicle simultaneously for a manned launch to the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced at a press conference by NASA head of the manned flight program Kathy Lueders.

Alexander Bloshenko, Director of the State Corporation for Advanced Programs and Science, did not rule out that in the future, gene and cell technologies and medical effects on individual organs will be used.

Roscosmos announced the delivery to the United States of the last batch of RD-180 engines from among the previously ordered ones. Recall that the Americans use them for the first stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle.

Japanese startup ispace will deliver the first lunar rover of the Arab world to the moon, using its Hakuto-R lander. Thus, in 2022, the list of countries that managed to land their spacecraft on the Moon can be replenished with two at once, according to the website Space.com.

The development of water supply systems for the complex on the surface of the Moon and the interplanetary space station can begin in 2022.

The reusable American rocket New Shepard, created to send people to the edge of space and back, on Wednesday made another successful test suborbital flight, said the developer company Blue Origin.

This is two years earlier than originally planned

TASS, April 14. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch its own lunar exploration program in 2022, rather than in 2024, as originally planned. This was reported on Wednesday by the Emirati newspaper The National.

China intends to increase cooperation with Russia in space and will contribute to ensuring the security of outer space. This was announced on April 13 by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian.

The prototype of the navigation system, an alternative to GPS, is going to be found in the US Navy. In the future, the development is planned to be integrated into the arsenal of hypersonic weapons and used in the fleet.

The Russian leadership has approved the decision to create an independent Russian space station, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported.

The work must be completed by November 15, 2025

Roscosmos plans to spend 1.88 billion rubles on development work (R & D) to create a complex of landing areas and primary maintenance of the return vehicle of the manned transport ship "Eagle", follows from the materials posted on the portal of public procurement.

As a result, Russia will receive a backup launcher, and Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates will be able to launch spacecraft into orbit

Kazakhstan, Russia and the United Arab Emirates plan to conduct at least four commercial launches from the first launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome ("Gagarin Launch") annually. This was reported to TASS on Monday by the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan.

NPO Mashinostroyeniya, commissioned by Roscosmos, is developing the Condor-FKA-M satellite. This was announced by the chief designer of the enterprise in the direction of spacecraft Alexey Rabochy, according to the corporate publication "Tribune".

Glavkosmos believes that as this direction develops, demand will increase, as the price will fall

Mass tourist flights to low-Earth orbits can begin by 2030, according to the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov.

As cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky noted, in order to understand whether Russia needs its own space station in the event of the closure of the ISS, it is necessary to understand its ultimate task

Private space companies can create a new space station. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Russian cosmonaut and scientist Sergei Ryazansky.

Roscosmos spends about 3 billion rubles a year on the maintenance of the Vostochny cosmodrome, Maxim Ovchinnikov, the first Deputy General Director of the state corporation for Economics and Finance, said in an interview with Interfax.

Sales of RD-180/RD-181 engines in the United States bring NPO Energomash about a third of the total revenue, Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director of Roscosmos for Economics and Finance, said in an interview with Interfax.

Earlier, the General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that private space companies in the next 10 years will begin a powerful integration with the companies of the state corporation

Russian private companies are not yet able to perform major tasks of Roscosmos, said the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on Monday in an interview with the RBC TV channel.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space, the Russian Defense Ministry published a short video from the Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces, where more than 30 samples of space technology are collected in a special audience.

The number of launches of Angara missiles in 2021 may increase from two to three, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, told reporters.