Fwd: 67 years since founding of Energia

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: September 2, 2013 11:22:53 AM GMT-06:00
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: 67 years since founding of Energia

 

 

 

August 26, 2013

67 years have passed since foundation of S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia

Dear colleagues of the enterprise, our veterans! Congratulate you heartily on the 67th anniversary of S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia!

The Corporation was established by an outstanding engineer and scientist, the academician Sergei Pavlovich Korolev who was known to be the founder of practical cosmonautics, the man of great organizational abilities, huge capacity for work, highly responsible, purposeful and committed to rise and development of rocket-space technology, performance of space flights in near and outer space.

Glorious history of the enterprise, inviolable traditions established by S.P. Korolev and developed by its associates and followers, including unquenchable purposefulness of S.P. Korolev in building advanced rocket-space technology and solving problems that cosmonautics is faced with, form the basis which makes it possible for the Corporation collective to open up new horizons in science persistently and boldly without stopping at the accomplishments made, advance actively implementation of the decisions which are crucial for our country and world civilization.

Major landmarks in RSC Energia history also signify triumphs of national and world rocket technology and cosmonautics. The following achievements can be undoubtedly referred to these landmarks: building and development of the first national long-range rocket complexes; effecting of scientific breakthrough of mankind in the field of space-starting first with unmanned technology (launch of the pioneer artificial Earth satellite on October 4, 1957), then efforts were undertaken to use manned space vehicles Vostok (space flight with Yu.A. Gagarin onboard on April 12, 1961); next came advanced rocket and space technologies developed and implemented which enabled to fly into interplanetary space, reach Moon, Mars, Venus with the help of the pioneer automatic space stations, perform operations by men outside space object (A.A. Leonov was the first in the world to conduct spacewalk from space vehicle Voskhod-2 in 1965); provide multimonth human flights onboard orbital stations (cosmonaut V.V. Polyakov set a record of 438-day flight under the Mir space program); embark on lines of research activity and its practical use with the use Elektron, Molniya, Zenit satellites; build and successfully test superheavy-lift launch vehicle Energia; develop, manufacture and provide long-duration operation of the first modern automatic communication and telecommunication spacecraft Yamal and many other things.

At the present time, the Corporation team is to solve new large-scale, challenging problems. Among them the following problems are worth mentioning: going on with the ISS Russian Segment development and keeping up operation of the station in continuous manned mode; building advanced manned transportation systems and space complexes, launch vehicles and interorbit transfer flights of payloads; development and manufacture of specialized new-generation automatic space systems. Solving these large-scale problems will require permanent modernization, reequipment of manufacturing and test capacities in order to comply with the XXIst century requirements for advanced machinery manufacturing technological support.

We believe that the Corporation collective is capable of solving these challenging problems, because the collective has a unique experience, acquired advanced knowledge, developed scientific-technical, production and manpower potential. The Corporation collective is going to be the leader of world cosmonautics during forthcoming years specifying vectors of further manking advance in conducting new space studies and exploration of near and outer space resources making thereby adequate contribution to the cause of strengthening national and planetary security, improvement of living standards of people; as well as increasing further scientific-technical and technological level of Russian industry.

Due to the fact that this is a red-letter day for the Corporation, we thank you again, our dear veterans and the members of the staff, for your multifaceted contribution to the cause of building rocket and space technologies, for your creative important work, maintenance and development of scientific-production complex and support infrastructure of the enterprise. Also we express our thanks to all Russian and foreign partners for their creative and responsible participation in joint projects. The results of joint activities that pulled us together and responsible partners work will surely allow us to open up new horizons, meet many objectives set today.

We wish You robust health, our dear veterans, colleagues and partners, new achievements in creative activity in the field of rocket-space technology and cosmonautics, great personal happiness, confidence in peaceful future!

Management of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev

 

 

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