December 10, 2012 - 35 years since the launch of Soyuz-26 carrying a crew consisting of Yu.V. Romanenko, G.M. Grechko, which docked to Sayut-6 orbital station. The beginning of a manned flight mode of Salyut-6 station.
November 3, 2012 - 55 years since the launch of the second artificial earth satellite, the first biological satellite carrying a dog Laika onboard. Telemetry information from space was transferred and received for the first time in the world.
November 1, 2012 - 50 years since the launch of the second Mars-1 automatic interplanetary station, which made the first fly-by of Mars on June 19, 1963.
October 30, 2012 - 10 years since the launch of the manned modified spacecraft Soyuz- TMA-1 carrying a crew of the fourth ISS visiting expedition (VC-4) consisting of: S.V. Zaletin, Yu.V. Lonchakov, F.De Winne.
October 30, 2012 - 45 years since the launch of Soyuz (Cosmos-188) spacecraft. The world first automatic docking and undocking with Soyuz (Cosmos-186) spacecraft.
October 4, 2012 - 55 years since the launch of the world first artificial earth satellite - beginning of space age in the human history.
September 29, 2012 - 35 years since the launch of Salyut-6 permanent orbital station. Five prime crews and eleven visiting crews worked aboard the station.
August 21, 2012 - 55 years since the first successful launch of rocket Р-7 to an estimated range.
August 12-15, 2012 - 50 years since the world first group flight of two spacecraft Vostok-3 (А.G. Nikolaev) and Vostok-4 (P.R. Popovich).
May 15, 2012 - 25 years since the first launch of extra-heavy Energia LV with Pole SC.
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May 15, 2012 - 55 years since the first test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile Р-7.
April 26, 2012 - 50 years since the launch of the first national satellite Zenith-2 for imagery of the Earth surface.
April 25, 2012 - 10 years since the launch of the third Russian visiting expedition to the ISS. The second space tourist Mark Shuttleworth is part of the crew.
April 23, 2012 - 45 years since the launch of Soyuz-1 spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut V.M. Komarov. During re-entry on April, 24 the cosmonaut perished due to the landing system failure.
April 19, 2012 - 30 years since the launch of the Salyut -7 permanent orbital station, being a second-generation station. Four prime crews and five visiting crews worked aboard the station.
March 31, 2012 - 25 years since the launch of special-purpose astrophysical module Kvant for docking to the Mir orbital complex.
March 1, 2012 - 100 years since the birthday of the Academician Boris Yevseevich Chertok.
February 6, 2012 - 25 years since the launch of the modified manned vehicle Soyuz TM-2 to the Mir orbital complex.
January 12, 2012 - 105
years since the birthday of the Chief Designer of rocket
and space technology, the founder of practical cosmonauts,
founder and lead of ОКБ-1 (S.P.Korolev RSC Energia),
Academician Sergey
Pavlovich Korolev.
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