Tsiolkovsky Cosmonautics Hist. Museum Kaluga _Smolensk School Graduate_Pin Badge

Description

Smolensk High School Graduate _
Tsiolkovsky Museum of
Cosmonautics History in
Kaluga_ Father of Space Flights_ Pin Badge
Quality
badge in very good condition
.
The inscription
is in Russian.
The badge of Smolensk High School Graduate showing
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics.
The Museum was opened in Kaluga where Tsiolkovsky ("father of Cosmonautics") worked and lived for more than 40 years.
Museum was opened on October 3, 1967, and became the first Space Exploration History museum in the world. It consists of two main halls with exposition showing the Origin and developing of the idea of space flignts; Tsiolkovsky's major works on cosmonautics; History of Rocketry & Space Exploration.
The Museum
also
has exhibition hall, planetarium and three scientific departments. Museum annually (since 1966) organizes scientific conference - "Tsiolkovsky's Readings" on different aspects of space exploration & research.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
, an outstanding scientist, inventor, founder of theoretical cosmonautics.
NASA site says about
Tsiolkovsky
: "One of the fathers of rocketry and cosmonautics, along with Goddard and Oberth"
NOTE: The ruler shown is in centimetres, not inches
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