Since August 2015 Rocket and Space Centre “Progress” has completely handed over the guidance of the devices “Aist-1” to Samara State Aerospace University. Now SSAU scientists and graduate students will perform monitoring of the satellites, make co...
Cosmonauts Alley is a wide avenue in northern Moscow leading to the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics and the Monument to the Conquerors of Space. The park-like avenue is punctuated by large stone memorials of important figures in the Soviet space pr...
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space was erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 110 meters (360.9 feet) tall, ...
The Monument to the Conquerors of Space was erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 110 meters (360.9 feet) tall, ...
Samara was one of the main builders of the Soviet Union’s space program. It is there where Vostok rocket, which made the first flight in the history of mankind into space, was assembled. It is there, where the aerospace power of the Soviet Union w...
On a corner where Ulitsa Tsiolkovskogo and Ulitsa Akademika Koroleva meet, there is a monument which depicts an imagined meeting between the streets' namesakes: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founding father of Russian theoretical cosmonautics and Se...
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the German-Romanian Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is conside...
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoo...
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoo...
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoo...
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoo...
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. It was opened on 3 October 1967 in Kaluga, and is named after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoo...
More than 700 lectures have been held since 2011 in St. Petersburg, Moscow and throughout Russia. Interesting, intelligible and revealing about space, astronomy and the world around us. Popular science, the basics of astronautics and aviation. Who...
