On 24th October, 2015 at the State Polytechnic Museum at "KPI" was held a round table discussion, dedicated to the disaster at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which occurred on 24th October, 1960. Then a missile R-16 exploded on the launch platform.
In the late forties of the last century, the rocketry was intensively developing in the Soviet Union. The first domestically produced ballistic rocket P1 was launched on October 10, 1948 from the Kapustin Yar.
The representatives of “Textron” (USA) industrial conglomerate “Textron” and “Progresstech-Ukraine” company visited National technical university “Kyiv polytechnic institute” in September, 9.
April 16, the X International Scientific and Technical Conference "Gyro technologies, navigation, traffic management and the construction of aerospace engineering" has started its work at NTUU “KPI”.
March 18, 1965 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome it was launched spacecraft "Voskhod-2" with a crew of commander Pavel Ivanovich Belyaev and co-pilot Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov.
February 9, the Chairman of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Oleg Urusky visited National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute".
November 12, for the first time in human history created on Earth spacecraft landed on the comet nucleus. The fact that until recently belonged to the sphere of science fiction has become reality.