The final program of the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly is now set. More than two thousand experts in space research and exploration will gather in Moscow in August for the 40th Scientific Assembly organized by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The Assembly’s program includes more than 4 000 talks and posters, nine interdisciplinary lectures, a round table dedicated to exoplanets, and a special talk to be given by Viktor Sadovnichy, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University which is the venue for the meeting.