  the russian federal space agency ( federal'noye kosmicheskoye agentstvo rossii), commonly called roscosmos (Ð Ð¾ÑÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð¾Ñ russpace) and abbreviated as fka (Ð¤ÐÐ) and rka (Ð ÐÐ), is the government agency responsible for the russian space science program and general aerospace research. it was previously the russian aviation and space agency ( rossiyskoe aviatsionno-kosmicheskoe agentstvo, commonly known as "rosaviakosmos"). headquarters of roscosmos are located in moscow. main mission control space flight operations center is located in a nearby city of korolev. the cosmonauts training centre (gctc) is in star city. launch facilities used are baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan (with most launches taking place there, both manned and unmanned) and plesetsk cosmodrome in northern russia used primarily for unmanned flights of military designations. the current general director, since 10 october 2013, is oleg ostapenko. ==history== [[file:zal raketnoi techniki.jpg|400px|thumb|right|the hall of space technology in the tsiolkovsky state museum of the history of cosmonautics, kaluga, russia. the exhibition includes the models and replicas of the following russian/soviet inventions: the first satellite, sputnik 1 (a ball under the ceiling); the first spacesuits (lower-left corner); the first human spaceflight module, vostok 1 (center); the first molniya-type satellite (upper right corner); the first space rover, lunokhod 1 (bucket on wheels on the right); the first [[space stati
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