Before leaving to Germany for celebrations, the discoverer of the comet Churyumov Klim Ivanovich gave an interview to NTUU "KPI". The main theme - the mission of "Rosetta", its characteristics and importance of the comets study for the knowledge of the world.
European Space Agency plans to land 12th November the module “Fila” Space Station “Rosetta” on the nucleus Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
One hundred years ago the pilot Peter Nesterov died in the implementation of the world’s first air ram on a German aircraft. Peter Nesterov is known as the pilot, who first in the world performed aerobatics “loop”.
October 3, a presentation of a collection of reminiscences of veterans of the Baikonur Cosmodrome "Coast of the universe" was held at the exhibition hall of the Section of Aviation and Astronautics named after I.Sikorsky of State Politechnic Museum NTUU "KPI".
On the night of June, 20 the first Ukrainian Nanosatellite “PolyITAN-1” designed at National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" was put into Earth orbit!
Students of Faculty of Aircraft and Space Systems of NTUU “KPI” celebrated their professional holiday in a special way this year.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Sergeyev - the outstanding designer of control systems of rocketry, twice Hero of Socialist Work, the winner of Lenin and State awards, the Doctor of Engineering, the academician of National academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Olexander Heorhiovych Ivchenko is a famous aircraft engine engineer that established his own school of aircraft engine production and united professional of the highest rank.
At the Berlin International Air Expo 1928, the visitors' general curiosity was attracted by the world's first ever medical aircraft, the K-3, designed by Konstantin Kalinin and presented by the Kharkiv Aircraft Factory.
The boy liked to listen to his mother’s stories about the infinite universe, mysterious stars, about the secrets of the seas and oceans, the wonderful and exciting world that stretched far beyond the walls of the Kyiv apartment.
