Transport piloted ship “Union MS-18”, on the surface of the screen-vacuum heat insulation of the household compartment of which the name of the first person departed into space – “Yu.A. Gagarin” was applied, dashed to the “Dawn” module of the International Space Station (ISS ). About this reports “Roskosmos” in Twitter.
The appropriate start of the Rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” took place at 10:43 Moscow time from the Baikonur cosmodrome (Kazakhstan). On this carrier was inflicted “The official emblem of the 60th anniversary of the first person in the history of a person in space.”
In April, the General Director of the Scientific and Production Association (NGO) “Energomash” Igor Arbuzov said that this year Russia will send the last six RD-180 rocket engines.
In March “Roskosmos” reported that NGO “Energomash” completed a three-month cycle of eight fire tests of the first convectional liquid rocket power unit of the RD-171MV, known as “King Engine”.