Moscow hosts “World Space Week” activities

The museum’s press service said in a statement: “From October 4 to 10, 2024, the Moscow Space Museum will host World Space Week events. Every year we hold these events to commemorate the launch of the first satellite into Earth’s orbit… Visitors to the museum this year will enjoy special lectures and tours, a festival of space cartoons will be held, visitors will learn about the history of space discovery, lectures and lessons on astronomy will be held for them, and they will also learn about the most important sections. The museum and its collections.

On the first day of activities, the museum’s planetarium will host the “Stars of the Sky in October” and “Baikonur’s Starry Sky” events, as visitors will be able to see what the starry sky looked like over Baikonur on October 4, 1957. Scientific lectures will also be held talking about the changes that occurred. In the sky over the past six decades and about the changes that will occur in the future.

On October 5, a space animation festival will be held in the museum’s cinema hall, after which special tests will be held for children to explore their knowledge about topics related to space. On October 7, the museum’s exhibition will host a class on the topics of weightlessness in space, and on October 8, tours will be organized for visitors to introduce them to the most important sections. Museum, and on October 9, visitors will meet the hero of Russia, cosmonaut Sergei Revin.

Source: TASS