Roscosmos facts for kids

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Roscosmos State Space Corporation
Государственная Корпорация "Роскосмос"

Roscosmos headquarters building in Moscow
Acronym	ROSCOSMOS
Owner	Russian government
Established	25 February 1992; 32 years ago (1992-02-25) (as the Russian Space Agency)
Headquarters	42 Shchepkina Street, Moscow, Russia
Primary spaceport	Baikonur Cosmodrome Vostochny Cosmodrome
Administrator	Dmitry Rogozin
Budget	176 billion rubles (2020) (US$2.77 billion)
Website	www.roscosmos.ru

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos (Russian: Роскосмос), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.

Originating from the Soviet space program founded in the 1950s, Roscosmos emerged following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It initially began as the Russian Space Agency, which was established on February 25, 1992 and restructured in 1999 and 2004, as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), respectively. In 2015, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) was merged with the United Rocket and Space Corporation, a government corporation, to re-nationalize the Russian space industry, leading to Roscosmos in its current form.

Roscosmos is headquartered in Moscow, with its main Mission Control Center in the nearby city of Korolyov, and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City in Moscow Oblast. Its launch facilities include Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the world's first and largest spaceport, and Vostochny Cosmodrome, which is being built in the Russian Far East in Amur Oblast. Its director since May 2018 is Dmitry Rogozin.

As the main successor to the Soviet space program, Roscosmos' legacy includes the world's first satellite, first human spaceflight, and first space station. Its current activities include the International Space Station, wherein it is a major partner. On February 22, 2019, Roscosmos announced the construction of its new headquarters in Moscow, the National Space Centre.

Images for kids

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  Patch of the Russian Space Agency, 1991–2004

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  Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov on EVA (February 2012)

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  2022 alternate logo of Roscosmos.

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  The Zarya module was the first module of the ISS, launched in 1998.

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  The Galenki RT-70 radio telescope, it is among the largest single dish radio telescopes in the world.

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  Sergei Korolev, the mind behind the first satellite, the first craft to deliver a human into orbit, and the craft from which the first spacewalk was performed.

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  Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space and to orbit the Earth.

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  Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk.

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  Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space.

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  Vostok was the first spacecraft to carry a human being in space.

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  Soyuz is the longest-serving crewed spacecraft design in history (1967– ), upgraded regularly.

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  Progress is the longest-serving uncrewed cargo spacecraft (1978– ).

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  The Soviet space program produced the canceled Space Shuttle Buran based on the discontinued Buran program.

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  Soyuz rockets are responsible for launching all Soyuz and Progress spacecraft into space.

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  Proton rockets are the heavylift workhorse of Russian space industry.

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  The TNA-70 radio telescope is operational and is located in Crimea (Russian-annexed, internationally recognised as part of Ukraine).

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  The RT-64 with its their 64m antenna diameter. It is located in Kalyazin.

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  The RT-70 antenna dish aerial taken from the NASA satellites.

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  The Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope

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  The transmitting arrays at the Pluton complex in Crimea.

See also

In Spanish: Roscosmos para niños