On January 10, 2015 at 09:47 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from the Cape Canaveral US Air Force Station in Florida. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force. US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” (CRS-5 flight) unmanned spacecraft on a firth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services. The Dragon spacecraft is carrying about 2,317 kilograms of supplies for the space station crew and for experiments being conducted aboard the ISS. It is the 7th flight of a “Dragon” spacecraft and the 6th flight of a “Dragon” to the ISS.

On January 01, 2015, Boris Vladimirovich MORUKOV, pilot-cosmonaut of Russia, passed away at the age of 64.

Morukov, a doctor and a former cosmonaut, was project director of the unprecedented Mars-500 simulation, in which an international team of six men spent 520 days in isolation to simulate a flight to Mars.

92 rocket-carries were launched in 2014. 90 launches were successful. There were 2 fail launches in 2014.

Russia performed 32 launches. One of them was a fail launch.

USA performed 23 launches. One of them was a fail launch.

China performed 16 launches.

Arianespace performed 11 launches.

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