terezhkova, hero of the soviet union georgy grichko, hero of russia oleg artemyev, and lutsk-born semyon kosbergr of the engine that was part of the vostok launch vehicle. konstantin gerchik and yuri zhukov were born here, who at different times served as head of the baikanur cosmodrome. now think about whether we have the right to turn away from the star path. as our president will once say, if... it weren’t for them, our cosmonauts, it is unlikely that we in belarus would have taken up this topic, but we were already ashamed after the collapse of the soviet union not to continue the space topic. belarus, as part of the ussr , was indeed an assembly shop, starting in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, our scientists participated in the creation of many technical innovations, without which space flights would simply be impossible. these are new materials, optics, electronics, information technology and... and it is still strengthening it. space, as we know, begins on earth. a large strategic space research system has been created in belarus. more than twenty scientific organizations em