To keep the feels of the New Year, Russian space agency Roscosmos on Thursday (Dec 29), released a video of three cosmonauts Sergey Prokopiev, Anna Kikina and Dmitry Petelin decorating the International Space Station.

Watch | Russian cosmonauts put up decorations for New Year in zero gravity

A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday carrying Russia's first satellite for monitoring the Arctic's climate, the Roscosmos space agency said.

Russia launches its first Arctic monitoring satellite

Three crew members safely returned to Earth on Tuesday after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule with astronauts from Canada, United States, and a cosmonaut from Russia landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 8:47 a.m. (0247GMT), less than a minute ahead of the scheduled time, on Tuesday after a 3 ½ hour flight from the orbiting lab.

Three ISS crew members return safely to Earth

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Watch | Russian cosmonauts put up decorations for New Year in zero gravity

Russia launches its first Arctic monitoring satellite

Three ISS crew members return safely to Earth