on Thursday, October 14, 2021, on the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line of the metropolitan metropolitan, the thematic train “Mosprom-Space” is launched. Hundreds of photos will be told to passengers about the history of domestic cosmonautics and the modern contribution of the Moscow industrialists in the development of space. Mobile exhibition will run six months. The project “Mosprom-Space” was created with the support of the state corporation “Roskosmos” and is timed to the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a person in space and the Day of the Moscow industry.
Alexander Bloishenko, Executive Director for promising programs and science of Roskosmos State Corporation, Hero of Russia, Cosmonaut Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, and Alexander Prokhorov, Head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow, head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of the city of Moscow, were attended. At the end of the speech of honored guests, the plot was shown with the video of specialists from the East Cosmodity.
Moscow – the cradle of domestic cosmonautics, it was in the capital that the rocket-space industry was born. The legendary scientists Sergei Korolev, Nikolay Lydorenko and Friedrich Zander, worked here and embodied their ideas. More than 200 photos will be told about the history of cosmonautics, satellites, rockets, piloted flights and automatic interplanetary stations. A separate car of the themed train will be dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, where not only photos of the legendary cosmonaut are collected, but also interesting facts about people and enterprises that secured the piloted flight into space.
In addition, one of the cars will introduce guests and residents of the capital with a remotely manageable self-propelled apparatus “Lunohod-2” self-propelled apparatus, which drove 42 kilometers on the surface of the natural satellite of the Earth, and its predecessor “Lunohod-1” made more than 20 thousand pictures Moon and handed them to Earth.
Metro passengers during the trip will be able to find out that the company “Kvant” (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) invented and manufactured more than two thousand solar power systems, which were installed in the salute orbital stations and the world, as well as On board the International Space Station, on the domestic interplanetary apparatus “Venus”, “Mars”, “Phobos”. Engineers of the experienced plant “Angstrom” for half a century produced two thousand types of chips.
Mobile exhibition “Mosprom-Space” in the Moscow Metro is a project in which more than 40 metropolitan enterprises, research institutes and the largest organizations of the rocket and space industry took part.