Cuban Crisis Missile, the R-12. Made in Ukraine
"The first enterprise was the Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-586) formed at the plant in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine by an order of the Council of Ministers...
‘Ukrainian’ Bohachevsky Function, Apollo-11 Moon Landing and Return to Orbit
One of the most popular posts on Reddit recently with over 50,000 likes was the one in the 'Today I Learned' section with the...
Ukraine in Space
Sergei Korolev - the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...
Ukraine-engineered most powerful ballistic missile SS-18 was used as Dnieper Rocket to deliver satellites...
R-36 is the world's largest and most dangerous Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) ever built. And it is solely Ukraine's know-how. Highly accurate guided missiles...
The founder of Geosynchronous Communications Satellite industry Joseph V. Charyk was born in Canada to a...
Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...
Successul launch of LP “VEGA” with Ukrainian engine
"Main engine unit RD-843, incorporated into a liquid propulsion system for the 4th stage of LV “Vega”, was developed by Design Office “Yuzhnoe”...
Injustice towards Sergei Korolev after Gagarin’s first man into space flight
Academician Boris Chertok in his three-volume memoirs Rockets and People translated into English and published by NASA's History Division, recollected: "It grieved us when we...
Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside Yuri...
"When American astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Soviet Union after his historic flight to the Moon, he collected a handful of soil from...
Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan. 12, 1907
The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...
Water ice in the Korolev crater on Mars
"The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air...
