How starts the Soyuz-2 carrier missile starts, why Yuri Gagarin chose the profession of astronaut and what books he wrote – on May 15, 2021 participants learned the participants “Night Museums – 2021” in the Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket and Space Technology Scientific -Productional association of automatics named academician N.A. Semikhatova (Yekaterinburg, is part of Roscosmos State Corporation).
The topic of the program this year: “You know how he was a guy! Man opens space.” In honor of the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a person in Cosmos, the NGO Museum of Automation showed citizens the exhibition of books about the history of space of space, co-author of one of which was Yuri Gagarin. In addition, guests saw rare photos and met interesting fragments of the biography of the first Russian astronaut.
During the excursion, Yekaterinburg also learned how the contribution to the Ural enterprises in the development of space and how the creation of the first artificial satellite of the Earth is associated with Ekaterinburg.
In 1957, NGOs of automation, on the site of which our museum was created, made quartz resonators for the first artificial satellite of the Earth. Today, the company produces management systems for the Soyuz-2 carrier family. The participants of the campaign “Night Museum – 2021” were able to join the case of the Ural designers and on the interactive screen in 3D glasses to launch Soyuz-2 from any of the four cosmodromes: Plesetsk, Baikonur, East or Guiangian Space Center. Our guests saw all stages of starting from preparation before removing the satellite into orbit, “explained the head of the Museum Tatyana Sukhareva.
In addition, the guests of the site saw a real jade, designed to fly in the spacecraft. During the campaign “Night of Museums”, more than 500 people were able to join the history of cosmonautics.