On March 27, 2014 at 23:53 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-12M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Poisk” (MIM-2) module of the International Space Station in automatic regime. The docking, originally scheduled for March 26, was postponed due to an orientation problem. The Soyuz TMA-12M delivered three new members of Expedition 39 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev as well as American astronaut Steven Swanson.

The hatches between the "Soyuz TMA-12M” and the space station were opened at 02:34 UTC on March 28, 2014. ... Read more »

On March 27, 2014 Secretary of the FIP Section for Astrophilately Jaromir Matejka and Chairman of the Section Igor Rodin had a meeting in Wien. They discussed a number of questions for organization the Section’s meeting in the frames of Philakorea 2014 exhibition. Some other questions for the development of Astrophilately were also discussed.
 

On March 25, 2014 at 21:17 UTC (on March 26 at 01:17 Moscow time) the Russian “Soyuz TMA-12M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov (center); flight-engineer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (right); American astronaut Steven Swanson (left).

Photo by Russian Cosmonaut training center. The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on March 28. Skvortsov, Art ... Read more »

On March 23, 2014 at 22:54 UTC (March 24, at 02:54 Moscow time) the “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk region, North Russia. The rocket equipped with the “Fregat” booster orbited “Glonass-M” navigation satellite.

 

On March 22, 2014 at 22:04 UTC the “Arian-5ECA” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited 2 telecommunications satellites: the Astra-5B and Amazonas-4A.
 

On March 15, 2014 at 23:08 UTC the “Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The rocket equipped with the “Briz-M” booster orbited the “Express-AT1” and “Express-AT2” telecommunications satellite.

 

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 38 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as American astronaut Michael Hopkins.

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On March 11, 2014 at 00:02 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-10M” spacecraft undocked from the Russian "Poisk” (MIM 2) module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 38 – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy as well as American astronaut Michael Hopkins.

On March 03, 2014 American astronaut William Pogue, veteran of the final Skylab mission, passed away. He was 84.  

On February 28 several Nanosatellites were launched from the International Space station. The term "nanosatellite" or "nanosat" is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.

The following Nanosatellites were launched from the ISS:

Flock-1.27 and Flock-1.28  – at 04:20 UTC;