With my whole soul and thoughts I am Yours, with my last sincere regards always Yours K. Tsiolkovskiy"
19 September 1935 the great Russian scientist Konstantin Eduardovich was no more.
The honorable relay race on realization and implemeting into life the ideas of Tsiolkovskiy on rocket navigation and interplanetary communications was taken up by his pupils and followers - Soviet scientists, engineers, production workers, workers.
Now to all the world are known the achievements of the Soviet Union in the region of penetration into Space and its mastery, which opened a new epoch in the history of mankind.
Several days after the Academy of Sciences of USSR and other scientific establishments and public organizations noted the 100th anniversary since the birth of K. E. Tsiolkovskiy, on 17 September 1957 a monument was erected to him on Leningrad prospect in Moscow and embodied in Kaluga on Peace Square.
On 4 October 1957 was launched the Soviet artificial' earth satellite, the first in the world. This event produced in the whole world a huge impression. Soon, 3 November of the same year, in the Soviet Union there was successfully launched a second artificial earth satellite weighing 508.3 kg, with a pressurized cabin in which there was an experimental animal - the dog Layka.
On 15 May 1958 there was launched into orbit the third Soviet artificial earth satellite, of still larger weight - 3327 kg, including weight of equipment for scientific investigations, radio transmitters, and power sources.
On 2 January 1959 in Soviet Union there was launched a space rocket, which for the first time attained second space speed [escape velocity] - 11.2 km. per second; it passed at a distance of 5,000 km. from the surface of the Moon and became a
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