Today the cargo ship "Progress" delivered to the ISS the flags of the five member States of the Eurasian economic Union and Vympel Scientific center of Eurasian integration (NCEI) – the initiator of the action.
On the eve of Russia's chairmanship in the Eurasian economic Union, the Integration process received a new impetus and its cosmic dimension. Ahead – the implementation of a number of practical cooperative projects, including preparations for the expedition to Mars.
Many of them will be prepared with the active participation of NCAI and Research Institute of biomedical problems of RAS with the participation of leading scientists of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan - States, flags which for the first time in the history of space exploration came together in outer space.