On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, Roscosmos State Corporation and Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman announced a competition among the Baumanians who are trained in the Program of Target Training for Organizations of the Rocket and Space Industry of Russia. The winners of the competition in March 2022 will visit the Baikonur cosmodrome and will be able to see the launch of the piloted ship “Union MS-21” with the crew of the next expedition flying to the international space station.
In the framework of the competition, until February 12, collect applications from students who should make a video sink in Instagram format on the topic “Why I want to work in the space industry” and write an essay on the topic “My future contribution to the development of a rocket-space industry” up to 125 words. When evaluating the participants, good student performance will be taken into account for the last three semesters of training, participation in research projects and scientific conferences, availability of publications.
It is expected that by February 18, the Commission chaired by the Executive Director of Roskosmos on promising programs and the science of Alexander Blosenko will choose 15 finalists. In March, the cosmonauts of Roscosmos will determine five winners of the competition, who will go to Baikonur.
During the trip to the cosmodrome, students will be able to see the exportation of the Soyuz-2.1A launch vehicle, to meet with astronauts and the main designers of Roscosmos enterprises, visit the installation and test buildings, the museum of the cosmodrome and the first cosmonaut’s museum of Yuri Gagarin and the main Designer of rocket and space technology Sergey Korolev, as well as to watch the launch of the Soyuz MS-21 ship with the astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov.