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Before 1992, roscosmos was a part of the russian aviation and space agency russian. Kosmicheskaya programma v sssr, commonly known as the soviet space program, was the national space program of the union of soviet socialist republics ussr active from the 1930s until the federations disbandment in 1991. Nov 17, 2014 the russian space agency is reportedly considering construction of a highaltitude orbital station starting from 2017. Fortis watch cosmonautis official cosmonauts chronograph 638. The swiss brand has been the official watch supplier to the russian space program since 2004, and was the official supplier to the mars 500 mission in 2010 these ongoing and intensive collaborations with space travel experts resulted in another world first for fortis. Great prices for fortis b42 official cosmonauts on. This means that moscow may walk away from the iss after 2020, when its obligations under the current project are fulfilled.
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