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• Maps to Rovers: the History of Mars Exploration

  For the past 400 years Mars had been a great source of interest to earth-dwellers, who often speculated on the existence of life on the Red Planet. Our knowledge of the planet changed greatly when the first satellite images were taken in 1965. Today, the number of robots on the surface of Mars makes it fair to say that the planet is inhabited by machines, says Oleg Semyonov, a photographer of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation and an image processing expert. As part of the science festival at the Lermontov Library, he gave a lecture on the history of exploration of Mars, the origins of myths about Martians, and the peculiar specifics of taking photos of the Red Planet.

  08.01.2019

• Houston, We Have a Problem: the Dangerous Subtleties of Space Flights

  It may seem that in our technologically advanced age of artificial intelligence and kid hackers, space flights have become a routine and safe activity with perfectly played-out procedures and unfailing equipment. But in reality, even the smallest of glitches can put the astronauts’ lives in peril, which makes space missions even more risky since you can never fully factor in all the possible hazards. In his open lecture at the St. Petersburg Lermontov Library, Alexander Khokhlov, an astronautics popularizer and design engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, talked about different predicaments that could happen (and really happened) during space flights. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of his speech. 

  16.08.2018

• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

  Cosmonautics has always attracted the interest of the public, but now this scientific area creates an especially loud buzz. This is largely due to the popularizing activities of Elon Musk; this South Africa-born innovation entrepreneur is often labeled as the pioneer of private space rocket production. But Russia has its own answer to Elon Musk: the legendary Soviet spacecraft engineer Sergei Korolev. In his lecture at St. Petersburg’s Planetarium 1 quizzically titled as “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”, Andrey Emelyanov, a renowned spacecraft test engineer and member of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation, compared the scientific footprints of these two cosmonautics’ towering figures. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of this talk.

  07.08.2018