Today, the State Space Agency is engaged in the Ukrainian space program, and the National Technical University “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” is engaged in the development of space technology and training engineers for the space industry on the largest scale in the country.
Today, January 28, is the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Hero of Ukraine, Major General of Aviation and Cosmonautics Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk. He is the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. Leonid Kadenyuk was a man with a big heart and boundless love for the Homeland.
“Cosmonautics has an infinite future and its prospects are boundless, like the Universe itself” – these words of Sergiy Koroliov are of great interest at this time. His far-sighted, incisive mind was able to comprehend all the greatness of cosmic horizons.
On December 12, Sergiy Korolyov was born. He was a rocket engineer who launched the first satellite into space, the first astronaut, and a spacecraft designer.
The MASCOT module successfully completed a space mission and delivered soil to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu. Had Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute not made heat pipes for the device, “Hayabusa2” would not have been able to survey the asteroid for more than a year and collect samples.
World famous expert in strategic issues of space field development, entrepreneur, journalist and space exploration enthusiast Rick Tumlinson (USA) gave a lecture on 16th June in the exposition hall of State Polytechnic Museum at the Igor Sikorsky KPI.
