ILS President Kirk Pysher was invited by Glavkosmos Director General Dmitry Loskutov to visit the space museum complex at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow. Inspired by the 19th century world expositions held in London, Paris, and Chicago, the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy — known more popularly by the Russian acronym VDNH — was built to showcase and celebrate the agricultural, industrial, and technological accomplishments of the Soviet Union and its constituent peoples and republics.

Pysher and Loskutov attended a meeting with Roscosmos leadership and representatives of foreign countries. The meeting was organized by Roscosmos in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.