NPO Energomash Engines as Art

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Link to websites decribing on-going exhibit in at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.  Nice photos on the second link.

http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19997

http://www.1001tema.ru/component/option,com_presscan_article/doc,3004882285

Rocket Engine in Photo Artist’s Eyes

April 5, the Polytechnical Museum of Moscow opens an exhibition “Strategic Heritage” which is timed to coincide with the Day of Cosmonautics. The exhibition is organized by V.P. Glushko NPO Energomash. Strategic Heritage is a multimedia project which incorporates artistic and documentary photographs, artistic vision of space engine building objects (production and field panoramic views, interiors, sceneries, portraits), video art, an actual one-chamber engine (in a form of a sculpture). The musical illustration of the project shall include sounds of production process recorded in shops, corridors, launch sites, voices of engineers, cosmonauts, process engineers, and operators.  The event is of interest not only for rocket science historians, students and people working in the aerospace, but also for the public at large. Photographs and video materials displayed at the exhibition have been made by NPO Energomash and provide for an opportunity to touch up mysteries of the space industry from the inside, see rocket engines with K.E. Tsiolkovsky, S.P. Korolyov, V.P. Glushko’s eyes.