Studio Roscosmos

Baikonur is the largest cosmodrome in the world.

All types of Russian missiles were launched from here.

The famous Gagarin launch is also located here, and cosmonauts are still going into orbit from this site No. 1. Now Baikonur is opening in a new capacity - the center of technological tourism.

Previously, it was impossible to get here, because the cosmodrome was a military and therefore completely closed object, even soldiers and officers who were going here for service did not know where they were going until the last moment.

The history of not only world cosmonautics, but also big politics was created here.

The first foreigner to visit Baikonur was Charles de Gaulle.

Today, a lot of people from different countries are eager to visit the cosmodrome during the launch of the spacecraft in order to see it not during the Internet broadcast, but with their own eyes.

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For more than half a century, the Soyuz launch vehicle has successfully launched spacecraft and crewed ships into orbit.

Originally developed as a weapon, the rocket became famous by launching the world's first artificial satellite into space, and since then it has continued to work only for peaceful space.

The perfection of the design makes it possible to modernize the rocket, leaving intact the general principles laid down by the designer Sergei Korolev.

To date, the Soyuz remains the most popular rocket in the launch services market and launches from four spaceports located on two continents.

Kaluga has solemnly celebrated the 50th anniversary of the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.

The world's first space museum in the homeland of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was created with the participation of the first cosmonaut of the Earth Yuri Gagarin and chief designer Sergei Korolev.

The museum contains several tens of thousands of unique exhibits covering the entire history of space exploration, from the origins of aeronautics, aviation, rocket and space technology and the first artificial Earth satellite to modern orbital stations.

The museum has become a kind of symbol of Kaluga, which is now called the cradle of space.

Cosmonauts Alexander Alexandrov and Alexander Lazutkin, director of the museum Natalia Abakumova, Governor of the Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov starred in the story.

On October 10, 1967, the Treaty on the Principles of the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, entered into force; briefly, this document is called the Outer Space Treaty.

A lot has changed in 50 years, humanity has learned to fly into space and is making plans to develop the nearest satellite of the Earth, and in the future, other planets.

But how to determine who will own certain territories and the useful resources extracted on them?

According to lawyers, the Moon may become a serious international problem in the near future, and it may have to be a separate set of laws for it.

The plot starred Olga Volynskaya, Igor Mitrofanov, Sergey Zhukov.

October 4, 2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite.

Then space seemed limitless and they didn't think about space debris.

But now there are more than 6,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, only 1,000 of them are operational, and all the rest are already orbital debris.

Experts believe that a little more and it will be impossible to put another satellite into orbit, because even a small bolt weighing only 10 grams in a collision at a speed of 10 km / s gives the effect of an anti-tank shell bursting.

Two large tracking systems in Russia and the USA are monitoring space debris.

The altitude of 400 km, that is, the orbit of the ISS, is under special control.

According to scientists, now is the time to design cleaning devices that could clear the outer space around the Earth.

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The Days of Roscosmos and the Second All-Russian Youth Forum of Cosmonautics and Aviation "CosmoStart-2017" were held in St.

Petersburg.

Almost 2000 students and schoolchildren took part in the events.

For the first time in the history of such forums, a videoconference with the ISS took place.

Meetings with cosmonauts were held at the St.

Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.

In the mobile control center, you could feel like a spaceship pilot, conduct a manual docking with the ISS, perform an aerospace survey of the Earth.

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The 42nd "Korolev`s Readings" have ended at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

The main topics of discussion were the retrofitting of the ISS with Russian modules, the expansion of the range of scientific and applied research and the creation of space infrastructure for flights to the near-lunar space and to the Moon.

The General Designer of RSC Energia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Mikrin spoke about the basis of the future Russian cosmonautics.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to American scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their studies of gravitational waves, the theory of the existence of which was put forward by Albert Einstein.

Interview: Vladislav Pustovoit, Kip Thorn, Leonid Prokhorov, Rashid Sunyaev.

The XII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Manned Space Flights" has ended at the Yuri Gagarin Central Research Center.

One of the main goals of manned cosmonautics is still the return to the moon.

The plot starred cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, Deputy head of the Gagarin Research Center Valery Sivolap, Deputy Director General of the Center for Simulator Construction and Personnel Training Vadim Yanushkin, engineer of the Center for Simulator Construction and Personnel Training Alexander Snytko, cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko.

On September 2, 1906, Soviet and Russian science fiction writer Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev was born.

He has lived a long, eventful life.

During the Great Patriotic War, he was the head of a special task force of the Main Military Engineering Directorate of the Army, was engaged in testing new equipment, and after the war he led military engineers in Germany and Austria who dismantled fascist factories.

Having started writing in the mid-1930s, he became one of the most famous science fiction writers of the Soviet era, and also published a number of articles and stories devoted to the mystery of the Tunguska meteorite.

For a long time he worked as an engineer at one of the leading enterprises of the space industry - VNIIEM. His works have become a kind of warning to earthlings about the fragility of peace on our planet.

The plot starred the writer's son Nikita Kazantsev, Chairman of the Board of the Union of Search Teams Yuri Smirnov, political scientist Sergey Markov, physicist Evgeny Shirokov, literary critic Maxim Osmolovsky, writer Yuri Polyakov.