October 24, 2017 the State Polytechnic Museum in the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kiev Polytechnic Institute” hosted a roundtable on two tragic dates - the 57th anniversary of the rocket catastrophe in October 24, 1960, which killed 74 people and another 52 died in hosp
November 21, 2015 Department of Aviation and Cosmonautics. m.Sikorskoho State Polytechnic Museum at "KPI" opening ceremony of the stand dedicated to the veterans of Baikonur - participants launch of Sputnik and the first cosmonaut YA Gagarin combatants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
After finishing World War the Second the relations between USSR and USA are abruptly aggravated. From 1946 in the United States the nuclear plans were developed to attack USSR.
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.
