75 years ago, August 26, 1946, in the Moscow Region NII-88, the Department of Development of Ballistic Long-Term Rockets under the guidance of the chief designer of missile complexes was formed, and in the future founder of the practical cosmonautics of Sergey Pavlovich Korolev. The special design bureau number 1 (OKB-1) led by them, whose successor is the modern Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. Queen (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”), determined the development of almost all directions of domestic rocket and space technology.
The History of the RSC Energia is inextricably linked with the adoption of the first domestic ballistic missiles of long-range action, which provided the creation of a country’s nuclear shield, and the beginning of the cosmic era of humanity. The first intercontinental “seven” was created, designed, manufactured and launched on an near-earth orbit. The first artificial satellites of the Earth, the ship “Vostok”, for the first time in the history of the flight with a person on board – the cosmonaut Yury Alekseevich Gagarin, the first automatic interplanetary stations that have reached the moon, Venus and Mars.
The “Energy” team built the world’s first piloted orbital stations “Salute” and “Peace”, transport manned ships of the Soyuz family and automatic progress trucks of all modifications, a reusable spacecraft were created in the project bureau and workshops of the enterprise Buran “As part of the Universal Transport Rocket and Space System” Energy – Buran “. For 75 years of its activities, the enterprise remains a recognized leader in the field of creating the latest technologies for the implementation of national programs and international spacecraft development projects.
Today, RKK “Energia” is a heading organization for the creation and operation of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The corporation carries out the manufacture and launches of modernized transport piloted ships “Union MS”, transport cargo ships “Progress MS” and modules of the Russian ISS segment. The company provides integration and control of the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, delivery of cosmonauts and goods on it, the implementation of research programs and experiments.