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Two Astrophilately Chairmen met in Moscow.

In June 2013 Mr. José Grandela (Spain), the former Chairman of the FIP Section for Astrophilately, visited Moscow. During his visit Mr. José Grandela had several informal meetings with Igor Rodin, Chairman of the FIP Section for Astrophilately. The colleagues discussed a number of questions concerning the development of Astrophilately. The webmaster of the Section’s website, Sergey Rodin, also took part in the meetings.

One of the meetings took place in the "Tsaritsyno” Palace and Park Ensemble founded by Catherine the Great.

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European supply spacecraft arrived at International Space Station.

On June 15, 2013 at 14:07 UTC the European ATV-4 "Albert Einstein” unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the Russian "Zvezda” ("Star”) module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered seven tons of fuel and supplies for the station's six-person crew.

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Shenzhou-10 docked with space module.

On June 13, 2013 at 05:18 UTC the Chinese "Shenzhou-10” manned spacecraft successfully completed an automated docking with the "Tiangong-1” space module. Three Chinese cosmonauts (Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang, Wang Yaping) aboard the "Shenzhou-10” monitored and reported the docking operation to the control center.
The docking procedure was the fifth to take place between Shenzhou-type spacecraft and the space module. Previous dockings include two automated operations by the unmanned Shenzhou-8 in 2011 and both an automated and manual docking by the manned Shenzhou-9 in 2012.
At the same day at 08:17 UTC the hatches between the spacecraft and the "Tiangong-1” module was opened and the cosmonauts entered the space module to carry out scientific and technical experiments.

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Russian “Progress” spacecraft undocked from the Space Station.

On June 11, 2013 at 13:58 UTC the Russian "Progress M-19M” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the Russian "Zvezda” ("Star”) module of the International Space Station for a weeklong flight to study the operation of its liquid-propellant engines in the ionosphere, which spans from 50 to 250 miles above the Earth’s surface. The deorbiting of "Progress M-19M” is to be performed on June 19.

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