The installation “Space Engineering” was inspired by Yuri Kondratyuk’s book “The Conquest  of Interplanetary Space” was published in 1929. The name of this man, unlike the famous scientist Tsiolkovsky, may not be known to many people. Without special education when he was 20 years old Yuri offered the optimal flight trajectory to the moon. It was his calculations that were used  in the American lunar program “Apollo”.

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