Space X On February 6, Ilona Ilona, ​​Ilona, ​​launched the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle on February 6. It should deliver its cargo - the personal electric car Tesla Roadster Ilona Mask - to heliocentric orbit. The car will fly around the Sun under the famous track “Space Oddity” by David Bowie (although another Bowie song was sounded - “Life on Mars”). The launch was broadcast live. We will remember every frame of this incredible broadcast.

On the night of February 7, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. This was a test launch (it was successful), so the rocket did not carry any payload. Only Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster with a mannequin in a spacesuit sitting behind the wheel - he listens to David Bowie and carries with him a disc with the works of science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The inscription “Donʼt panic” is displayed on the dashboard of the car.

Space X launched the Falcon Heavy missile. Tesla car will fly around the sun under the song of David Bowie. Photos and video Ilona, ​​Ilona, ​​SpaceX, on February 6 at 23:45 Moscow time, launched a heavy Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, which should deliver Tesla car inside it to a solar orbit. This is evidenced by the direct broadcast of the launch. The Falcon Heavy missile started from the Kennedy Space Center Cosmodrome in Florida.

The Washington City Council has approved a permanent bill to name the square in front of the Russian embassy after politician Boris Nemtsov. this on Twitter . announced Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation, A temporary law on the assignment of the Nemtsov Square is already in effect, Kara-Murza Jr. noted. The official opening ceremony of the square will take place on February 27, 2018, the third anniversary of the assassination of the Russian politician.

The Russian Ministry of Sports has filed six lawsuits against developers of stadiums for the World Cup. The total amount of all claims is 2.9 billion rubles, according to the RNS news agency, citing materials from the Moscow Arbitration Court. The lawsuits are related to the delay in the execution of contracts for the construction of stadiums, the Ministry of Sports said. According to the representative of the department, the contractors were offered to settle the claims out of court.

The report of the policeman became the basis for the investigation of the Investigative Committee in relation to the politician Alexei Navalny; he stated that Navalny had kicked him in the knee while being detained at a rally on 28 January. this on February 6 Navalny himself announced in the Novosti program on the Navalny Live channel.

Update . On the detained orphans, administrative protocols were drawn up on disobedience to the police, reports . OVD-Info In Kyzyl, on the evening of February 6, orphans were detained, who spent the night in the building of the Agency for Family and Children Affairs in protest against the fact that they were not given the housing required by law. Saisuu Baikara, one of the participants in the protest action, reported this to Taiga.info.

Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta flowers in memory of the pilot Roman Filippov, who died in Syria, near the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Moscow, February 5 Fontanka found a hole on the website of the Ministry of Defense, through which she received the personal data of the Russian pilot killed in Syria On February 5, Fontanka talked about how she found out that Major Roman Filippov was shot down on February 3 in Syria.

In the east of Taiwan near the city of Hualien on February 6, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck. Tremors were recorded at 23:50 local time (18:50 Moscow time). The earthquake destroyed several buildings in Hualien, including the Marshal Hotel. According to preliminary data, two people died , another 114 were injured.

In Damascus on February 6, the mothballed building of the Russian trade mission in Syria came under fire. As a result, no one was hurt. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the building suffered significant damage. We remind you that the day before, a Russian non-governmental delegation came under mortar fire in the Old City of Damascus, which had to be urgently evacuated from the scene of the incident.

Lucas Jackson / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Police in the Newsweek Media Group office in New York, January 18, 2018 In mid -January 2018, the office of Newsweek magazine in Manhattan was searched: prosecutors were interested in the company's servers. Officially, Newsweek commented on searches sparingly, the publication only said that the audit had nothing to do with what the magazine wrote about.

NASA Image satellite before launch in 2000 Electric engineer Scott Tilly in his free time listened to radio signals using equipment installed on the roof of his house in the Canadian province of British Colombia. He tried to find the secret American satellite of Zuma, which was launched in January 2018. There is no reliable information about the fate of this apparatus - due to the secrecy of the project.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hit eastern Taiwan on February 6. It is reported by Reuters, citing data from the US Geological Survey. Tremors were recorded at 23:50 local time (18:50 Moscow time), reports the BBC. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 22 kilometers northeast of the city of Hualien. There is no information about the victims yet. According to preliminary data, several buildings were destroyed in Hualien, including the Marshal Hotel, according to Taiwan News.

Now you can watch a previously never-before-seen interview with Boris Yeltsin from June 1990 Alexander Cheparukhin, a music promoter and the founder of Greenwave Music (which has organized performances in Russia by Michael Nyman, Kraftwerk, Kronos Quartet, and others), recently shared a previously unreleased video interview from June 1990 with Boris Yeltsin in honor of what would have been the late president’s 87th birthday.

February 6. The new SpaceX missile starts - with Tesla and the song "Space Oddity" Main The body of the military pilot Roman Filipov, who died in Syria on February 3, was delivered to his homeland . He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.