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Koroljow in Germany – 62 years ago
photo Cape Canaveral: Bill Ignalls (NASA); photo
Huntsville: Ralf Heckel (SEI); photo Korolev City: Nikita Yaskevich (YSC)
At the end of the 2nd world
war Wernher von Braun and his team traveled to USA. Many left their native country Germany. For Koroljow and the
rocket engineers it was a new beginning, for his daughter the nicest time of
her childhood. She spent like many Russian engineer's families the summer
holidays 1946 in the post-war German
country. During the warm summer days on the week-ends those families travelled to places of interest or through the long avenues of the country.
One lived on the Baltic beach of Peenemünde at nice hotels, in the green slopes
of the south resin in Bleicherode or in the pine-covered environs of Berlin and
went swimming in the Müggelsee. With the then 11-year-old Koroljow daughter
Natalia recollections were stamped. It was the first time that she got to know
her father and had time with him. A lot of this she wrote in her book
"Father" (NaUka, Moscow in 2007).
Now in September 2008 Natalia
returns to those places of her childhood,
places where the time of the great and long-range rockets began for her
father and many of his companions, at last also the race to the moon in the
remains of the German V2.
Here is the plan: Visits in
Nordhausen, the middle work, the dwelling house in Bleicherode, reunion with
former neighbours, the former institute “Rabe” (rocket construction and
development in 1945-47), Leipzig, Kummersdorf, Berlin, Peenemünde and
Neubrandenburg. It is a taut one-week programme with 4 conferences. These are
of quite different nature. Natalia reads together with scientists of MAY, IMBP
and IS in front of professional audience, pupils, historians and also
businessmen. In the centre her father stands with the publication of an extract
of the German issue of her book. But it is also about the promotion of young
people in the engineering of the astronautics and the manned flight to Mars as
a long-term objective of the today's youth and industry.
The board of directors of the
German Space Education institutes in Leipzig, Ralf and Yvonne Heckel, invited
to it warmly.
Date: 13.-22.9.2008
Delegation: Prof. Dr. Natalia
Koroljowa, Dr. Maria Koroljowa, Prof. Dr. Demin (IMBP), Prof. Dr. Malosemow
(MAI), Prof. Dr. Sotow (MAI)
Book: „Chefkonstrukteur Koroljow in Deutschland“, Elbe
Dnjepr Verlag 2008, ISBN: 978-3-940541-11-6, www.edverlag.de
Addition:
Dear colleagues, it is an
honor to us to organize this trip for the Korolev family. As already during our
trip with Natalia Koroljowa and her daughter Maria in January 2008 to
Huntsville in the USA at the 50th anniversary of "Explorer One",
these excursions are the beginning of a common ground between the Russian and
US astronautics. All that is a Grassroot engagement, leant to the Core Values
of the NASA.
This is not different with
our education work and the starting pupil and student exchange between
Huntsville, Leipzig and Moscow. It is a hard way. Still we want to show that
with the engagement of enthusiasts one can move everything: With a firm aim in
the future – as well as once SP Koroljow and Wernher von Braun.
We contributed a part of our
history to the book of Natalia Koroljowa and you can be anxious to the photos,
photographs and reports of this Germany visit of the Koroljows after 62 years.
For us Germans this excursion
means a deep insight into the Russian space history considering a certain
self-knowledge of a scientific cooperation of once. Many people in our country
do not know at all what happened during these years at many places directly in
front of our doors. At that time too many people were occupied with themselves
and the survival of their families.
Besides, the youth always
takes part on all these trips. Above all we expect to give new impulses and to
encourage them to set themselves a big target with a lot of diligence. This
youth is different than us and our fathers. Apart from being former because of
the mobile phones and computer use, they also own the potential of a better
cooperation. This integrity is the key of a manned flight to Mars.
Therefore, the next year we
extend our Space Education with pupil-exchange programmes between USA Germany
and Russia.
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