Wow! KHAI's graduate is in the space!
     Kononenko Oleg Dmitrievich - the graduate of 1988 year of Space-Rocket Engineering Faculty has started on April 8, 2008 as flight engineer of "Souz TMA-12" spaceship and 17th basic ISS expedition together with Sergiy Volkov and Li So Yon!
     On April 10 "Souz TMA-12" spaceship rendezvoused to ISS in automatic mode.
     During the flight Kononenko made two spacewalks:
       2008.07.10 - duration 6 hours 18 minutes.
       2008.07.15 - duration 5 hours 54 minutes.

July 2008 - Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China) granted 3 free education quotas for KHAI students/post-graduates in order to obtain Master/Doctor degree. Two 4-year students and one post-graduate of KHAI passed the competition and in the beginning of September leaved for China to study in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

     March 2007, February 2008 - three students of KHAI obtained Marie Curie's scholarship and leaved for Germany to pass the scientific internship in Fraunhofer Institute.