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Space Art Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 16 image entries
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Scientific community around the world celebrates 50 years in space. Fifty years ago Russians launched the first satellite into space, starting the space era and the space race against the United States. The first Russian satellite was named Sputnik, which emerged within the Cold War atmosphere and meant as an intermediary step to taking a military missile into space, according to the Sputnik designer Boris Chertok.
To celebrate 50 years in space, take compositions from paintings (drawings or sketches allowed too) and make them happen in space surroundings or on other planets. Some examples are: Mona Lisa posing on the moon landscape, or American Gothic happening on Mars.
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| | 50 years back, when USSR launched first artificial space satellite, the entire world went into shock state in admiration, looking with some bewilderment at already explored space.
However, only now, after 50 years, it is ascertained that the significant launch of space satellite was by no means a part of great plan of erstwhile USSR to prove its superiority over Western countries. On the contrary, this event was simply an unplanned dream flight of one of the Russian scientists. His group quickly designed a space rocket, docked a space satellite to the rocket but the more important thing - they could get the permission from Kremlin to start a new “Space era”.
Flickering light, which the enthusiastic people observed from the Earth, was not the space satellite but second stage of the space rocket. Even the creators of first artificial space satellite of our planet state the arms race between USSR and USA was the stimulus to creation of space satellite.
Space Exploration in the USSR:
Any sort of information with respect to rockets, satellites & people, involved in this sphere of technology, was kept confidential for a long time in USSR. But now it is known that the first artificial satellite of Earth was developed in settlement “Bolshevo” (now, it is science city Korolev), situated near Moscow. On May 13, 1946, Council of Ministers of USSR has passed a resolution about expansion of large-scale works with respect to development of domestic rocket production with an aim to fulfill the task of developing nuclear weapon & facilities for its delivery. In accordance with this resolution, Scientific Rocket Research Institute, RNII No.4 was formed in the territory of former engineering school in Bolsheva.
General A.I. Nesternko was appointed as Head of the Institute, colonel M.K. Tikhonravov, & S.P. Korolyov, teammate in GIRD & RNII, as his deputy in “Liquid-fuelled ballistic missiles”. Michael Klavdievich Tikhonravov was popular as creator of first liquid-propellant rocket, which was launched on August 17, 1933 from Nakhabino. In 1945, he headed the project in sending two astronauts to an altitude of 200km on rocket of type “V-2” & controlled rocket cabin. Project was supported by Academy of Sciences & approved by Stalin. However, in difficult post-war years, management of defence sector had no time for space projects, which were perceived as fantasy, disturbing main task of development of “long-range missiles”.
After studying the development prospects of rockets, developed according to classical sequential pproach, M.K.Tikhonravov comes out with a conclusion about their unfitness for intercontinental distances. Researches, carried out under the guidance of Tikhonravov, have shown that cluster configuration of rockets, developed in Korolyov Design Bureau, ensure 4 times more speed than the speed, which is possible during regular configuration. By implementing “cluster configuration”, Tikhonravov’s team has come closer to realization of treasured dream of sending a human into space. In initiative sequence, issues related to launch & return of satellite onto Earth, continued.
According to the order of EDB of Koroloyov, first scientific research work on space subject “Research for development of first artificial satellite” was started in scientific Research Institute -4 on 16th September 1953. Tikhonravov’s team, which had already done some solid groundwork on this subject, accomplished it efficiently.
In 1956, along with some his associates, M. K. Tikhonravov moves from Scientific Research Institute-4 to Korolyov’s EDB to become chief of department for designing satellites. First satellites, manned spacecrafts, first automatic interplanetary & lunar spacecrafts were developed under his direct participation.
The conventions of 1972 and 1976 bind the States to register space objects, to be launched, and provide information about them to the UN Secretary General. Based on this information, the registry is maintained and full and open access is provided to the registry. Information related to every space object, including the name, designation, date and place of launch, belongs to which country, the main parameters of the orbit and its general purpose can be found on www.unoosa.org/ / oosa / osoindex.html.
Complex legal issues arise within the frameworks of realization of international space projects. Thus, the Agreement on International Space Station envisages that, each one of the state shall retain jurisdiction and control over those elements of the station, which are registered under it. I.e. in legal terms, the ISS is not a single space but is regarded as a set of docked space objects with its jurisdiction on each one of them, like in the open sea, warships of various nations are moored to each other. In addition to this, each state maintains jurisdiction during the flight, including criminal jurisdiction on its own citizens, even if they are in a "foreign" module or in open space. More complex procedures to resolve the issue are envisaged in case of an offence, where the offender and the victim are citizens of different states.
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