Jet propulsion (1978)

Portraits of the founder of the theory of cosmonautics K.E. Tsiolkovsky.

Tsiolkovsky pre-museum in Kaluga, view of the street and the sky in the clouds.

Images of mythical flying machines in old drawings.

Allegorical images of hot air balloons and flying machines.

The gates of the Peter and Paul Fortress open.

Interior view of one of the cells, the door closes.

Portrait of N. Kibalchich.

View of the Milky Way through the prison bars.

Statues of griffins against the background of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Drawings of jet flying machines based on Kibalchich's designs.

Portrait of Kibalchich.

Newsreel of April 12, 1961: launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft.

Sculpture of a man with a rocket in his hand.

Fireworks in the sky.

A burning bunch of gunpowder.

A medieval drawing depicting fireworks in one of the Eastern countries.

A burning bundle of gunpowder, ancient Chinese drawings illustrating the use of combat rockets.

Salute in the sky.

A burning bundle of gunpowder, old Renaissance engravings depicting fireworks.

Cast barrels of old artillery guns near the Arsenal building in the Moscow Kremlin.

Rifling in the barrel bore of a gun.

View of one of the old artillery guns.

View through the barrel bore of a rifled gun.

A salvo of two guns.

Types of old artillery guns and their fragments.

Fragment of a painting depicting the use of combat rockets in the first half of the 19th century.

Portrait of Professor I.V. Meshchersky, the basic equation of a point of variable mass derived by Meshchersky.

Fireworks in the sky.

Portrait of Meshchersky.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: rocket mortar units fire at the enemy during the Great Patriotic War.

Collage of drawings of aircraft with a jet engine for flight control.

Newsreel from the 1900s: airplane takeoff.

Flights of the first airplanes.

Photos of airplanes with gunpowder rockets for preliminary acceleration.

Newsreel from 1943: test pilot of the BI-1 jet aircraft Bakhchivandzhi G. Ya. sits in the cockpit, closes the canopy.

The aircraft's takeoff run and takeoff.

Bakhchivandzhi fastens his helmet.

The BI-1 crashes.

Portrait of Bakhchivandzhi.

A link of jet fighters in flight.

The principle of operation of a jet engine (animation).

Patent for the first jet engine issued in France to Captain N.A. Teleshev in 1867. Jet passenger aircraft are landing.

Landing of a passenger aircraft.

Testing turbojet and turboprop aircraft engines.

Takeoff and landing of jet passenger aircraft.

Paintings depicting space.

Illustrations of utopian scientific projects for space flights.

Formulas and schemes for developing the speed of a ship to overcome gravity (animation).

Schemes and formulas for developing the third cosmic velocity.

Caricature of a flight to the Moon.

Tsiolkovsky House-Museum in Kaluga.

Newsreel from the early 1930s: Tsiolkovsky leaving his house with a bicycle.

Tsiolkovsky riding a bicycle down the street.

Tsiolkovsky at his desk at home.

Tsiolkovsky working in his office.

The formula for rocket motion derived by Tsiolkovsky.

Launch of a spacecraft.

A sectional view of one of the rockets in the museum exhibit.

Schematic diagram of a liquid-propellant jet engine proposed by Tsiolkovsky (animation).

Engine characteristic formula.

Portrait of Tsiolkovsky.

Wall and window of the first domestic gas-dynamic laboratory.

Units of the first domestic liquid-propellant jet engine designed by Academician Glushko.

Models of the first liquid-propellant jet engines.

Newsreel from 1933: installing the GIRD rocket on the launch pad at the Nakhabino test site.

Preparing the rocket for launch.

Rocket launch.

Inscription on a memorial stone at the launch site of the first Soviet rockets, names of designers on the stone.

Scheme of a multistage rocket in action (animation).

Newsreel from 1957: panorama of the launch pad of the launch vehicle with the first Soviet artificial Earth satellite on board.

Launch of the launch vehicle.

The artificial satellite entering outer space.

Gagarin Yu.A. before exiting the bus that delivered him to the launch site on April 12, 1961. The spacecraft rushes upward, the first human spacewalk, the cosmonauts move into the docked spacecraft.

Photographs of American astronauts on the surface of the Moon.

Launch of the spacecraft.

Rolling out the launch vehicle to the launch site.

Jet engines of the first stage of the launch vehicle.

View of the lower part of the spacecraft before launch.

Drawings of a reusable spacecraft.

The process of ionization of air atoms in laboratory conditions using a laser, demonstration of the first models of laser jet engines.

Spacecraft launch.

Diagram of charged particle acceleration using a nuclear reactor and a magnetic field (animation).

Installation of a spacecraft.

Pictures of space and the Universe.

Diagram of annihilation to obtain a stream of photons during the interaction of matter with antimatter (animation).

Interplanetary ship in space (animation).

Diagram of a laser photon engine with near-light speed (animation).

Photograph of A. Einstein.

Newsreel from the 1930s: the face of K.E. Tsiolkovsky.

Photo portrait of Tsiolkovsky.