



This year is special for Samara rocket builders. 120 years ago, the Dux plant was founded in Moscow, here are the roots of the future Progress rocket and space Center, where several modifications of Soyuz launch vehicles and spacecraft for various purposes are being created. 25 launch programs this year alone.
Rockets for four cosmodromes of the world.
It is Soyuz that will be the first to begin the history of the new Russian Vostochny cosmodrome.
To date, Progress has almost two thousand launches, no rocket center has such a load.
Natalia Burtseva's report, interview: cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, academician Alexander Kirilin, welder Alexander Krasnov, controller of the 5th category Lyubov Pleshivtseva, chief designer Oleg Lagno, head of the department for means of removal Sergey Volkov, academicians Sergey Tyulevin and Ravil Akhmetov, head of the plasma template shop Sergey Domke.
Leonov A.A. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut
08.02.2014