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Aviation and Aeronautics Museum was created in
1999 and is located at 220 Holovna Street. The
exposition consists of two permanent collections,
and exhibitions which are devoted to various
events. The first floor of the museum is devoted
to aircraft history. Visitors can become
familiar with the history of aeronautics and
flying machines, from O. F. Mozhajskij’s “flying
projectile” and an airplane of the Wright
brothers, to more modern aviation creations.
Lots of plane models of the First and Second
World Wars, record planes and planes of air
experts also can be found here. All models are
exact copies of historical flying machines.
On the 100th anniversary of O. K. Antonov’s
birth a collection of models of planes of KB of
O. Antonov was established in the museum
The exposition space on the second floor is
devoted to space research.
The beginning of the space age (October, 4th,
1957) is represented with models of the first
artificial satellites and rockets. The majority
of the exposition is devoted to space flight by
the space ship-satellite "East" on April, 12th,
1961 with the first representative of mankind -
Yuri Gagarin; flights of cosmonauts G. Titov, A.
Nikolaeva, P. Popovicha, and V. Bykovsky; and
the first woman cosmonaut, V. Tereshkovoj. The
space exposition consists not only of
achievements in space, but also research of the
former USSR. There are a lot of materials about
space programs of the USA, from suborbital
flights to flights by the orbital “space
shuttles”, expeditions to the moon on spaceships
„Apollo”, and the joint program of the USSR and
USA ÅPÀÑ by the ships "Union" and “Apollo”.
There are a lot of marks, post cards, badges,
posters, photographs and scale models. A
considerable part is occupied with an exposition
devoted to the first space pilot of independent
Ukraine, Leonid Kadenjuk. Among the unique
exhibits are gifts from NSAU, NASA, cosmonauts,
astronauts and so forth.
In 2004-2006 Chernovitsky designers made more
then 80 models of carrier rockets and space
vehicles which were produced by the world
“space” countries.
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