The next stage of space exploration - the creation of the large scientific research center on the Earth's orbit for the study and development of the Universe. In the picture - a future orbital station "Konstantin Tsiolkovsky", named after the brilliant scientist, author of the first project of "ethereal settlements" beyond the Earth.

All the best what humanity disposes by the end of the second millennium will be invested in the creation of these fundamental structures in space. The removable hardware and versatile equipment, new power generators and improved solar panels, and much more will be widely adopted here. The giant spaceport for the first space tourists and the launch site for manned spacecraft will be organized on the orbital station.

Many dangers are waiting for far space trail researchers. Most of them can be foreseen and taken into account when designing and building spaceships. In particular, if racing near the speed of light spacecraft meets on its way an obstacle in the form of a block of stone - an asteroid, then maneuvering to avoid a collision will be extremely difficult. In this case antiasteroid gun takes action and turns this stone in the gas cloud.

Another space fiction painting depicting manual destruction of the asteroid which is very close to collide with the Earth, orbital station or human's space settlement. Sometimes machines can not complete certain tasks. Then a man has to fight against destructive nature.

Now the problem of collisions in space is more and more acute. The meteorites are not the only threats in space. Space debris and unmanaged spacecraft, speeding across the expanses of the Universe, may cause the death of spacecraft.

The painting depicts the launch of the spacecraft from the orbit of artificial satellite of the Earth (possibly, but maybe not). Apparently this is the photon rocket, as the light cone is seen from its tail (which, in fact, in space should be invisible). Astronauts are waving their hands "good-bye", watching the launch from the observation platform of the artificial satellite and preparing themselves for the far journey.

From year to year the development of fishery, and more broadly, the state of the entire Marine Fisheries of the country is linked with the achievements of astronautics more and more closely.

Space equipment efficiently allows to explore the movement paths of plankton and fish shoals, to disclose obtained information to the fishing fleets, what will finally greatly increase the efficiency of fishery without a significant expansion of the existing fleet of ships.

The apparatus, created on Earth, is landing on Mars. This is our today. Many more advanced devices will storm Mars over and over again breaking the abysses of cosmic distances. Spacecraft of the Earth will explore the mysterious planet, seek to answer the question "Is there life on Mars? Is it necessary for man to fly there? "

And if it turns necessary, the manned spacecraft will take start on Mars. Until then it will be thoroughly studied by means of the automatic machines.

It really looks like a beautiful lunar flower with the petals opened up to sunlight. The first in the history Soviet automatic station "Luna-9" gently lowered onto the lunar surface in the vicinity of the Ocean of Storms in February 1966.

The Earth will receive the first television panorama of the lunar surface!

The "Luna-9" mission proved the possibility of soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon and approached the time when man steps on the lunar surface.

A time will come when stationary base will be created on the Moon to accommodate a sufficiently large number of specialists for the study and development of its natural resources.

The artist depicted a lunar "settlement" in the painting. We see scientific and office equipment, protected from the influence of sunlight and radiation, special screens rotating in a circle - the solar panels, as well as the residential complex and transportation spacecraft supplying the expedition.

Preparations for the launch of the spacecraft is in progress. One of the rocket stages has been installed in the starting tower with the help of the special lift.

The scale of future work in the field of space exploration impresses by its grandeur. Scientists predict that in the next 65-70 years it will be possible to organize a colony on the Moon with a population of 100 000 people. It is expected that the higher forms of life in the universe will be discovered by 2020, the important information from another civilization will be received in 2040, and creation of artificial planets will begin from 2060. The first settlements will be created in space.

Creatively developing ideas of Tsiolkovsky about cities in space, scientists have proposed to create a settlement in the form of cylinders made of glass and aluminum with a diameter of 0.5 kilometers (10 000 inhabitants) in the first stage. Habitable container is filled with oxygen atmosphere and rotates to create artificial gravity. Industrial and agricultural production develops outside the sphere at the periphery of the settlement and is provided by solar energy.

In this painting the artist has shown his own version of the draft space settlement of the first stage.

The brigade of astronauts managed to catch the asteroid which moved with not very high speed relatively to the satellite. Using the special space suits - rockets, the astronauts tow it to the satellite, where it will be used as a building material.

And now The Man is on the Moon! Solid, dark rocks are beneath his feet. Sharp black fractures of the cracks. Steep ledges of the ring mountains - craters. No sound can be heard on the Moon: there is no air there. Only bright spangles of the stars on the black background of sky and the huge bluish disk of the Earth revitalizes the picture of this silent lunar world. But The Man has already entered in this world. And his first greeting - to the Earth...

This painting takes us into the world of the planet what happened to be near the hypothetical collapsing star. The first gravitational waves reached the planet (noone has ever got them veraciously on Earth!). The "curvature" of space began... The gravity changes... The effects are completely unfamiliar to earthmen.

The hypothesis of the existence of antimatter and antiworlds (i.e., stars or other objects consisting of antimatter) was proposed by Paul Dirac in 1933, but it has not been confirmed or rejected by observations. This problem has become more complicated in 1957-1964 years when physicists discovered the violations of the law of conservation of parity of microparticles (molecules, atoms, and others.), reflecting the symmetry properties of the microparticles relatively the mirror image. Therefore, it is not quite clear whether or not we should continue to imagine the anti-world consisting of antimatter, but being in ordinary space - time, or it is in a "reverse" space - time.

The painting represents the cosmological ideas of the artist about this modern scientific problem. According to a hypothesis, the matter flows out of our universe to different space, the black hole, and then passes into the antiworld as a white hole - a giant ejection from the core of antigalaxy.

What is the nature of amber surf? .. Maybe it is quite different than on the Earth...

The show, extraordinary in its beauty and harmony, has been opened to the people who stepped on another small planet unknown before... The golden-yellow waves are surging hitting the rocks slowly and majestically, because of the low gravity.

It is difficult to overestimate all the opportunities opened up for us by the world's first mobile lunar laboratory fitted out with the most modern equipment. The Moon rovers allowed to research a wide variety of the lunar surface areas.

The people will be able to fully appreciate the full significance of this stage in the future, when humanity, along with the ongoing research today, will proceed directly to development and settlement of the Moon. The rovers will be widely used in construction of scientific bases, settlements and lunar cities. They will carry out cargo transportation, bulldozing, excavation, repair works and more.

Very short distance left to get to the mysterious planet! Natural satellite - a small Martian moon became a convenient intermediate station for rockets. Lightweight space system with the crew onboard will fly now from here to Mars with a small initial velocity.

Thirst for knowledge, the desire to create a more perfect harmonious world will attract to strange worlds of future spacemen...

Perhaps, such mystique will take place among the phenomenas on the planet of blue sun. What is it?

The spacecraft is orbiting the Moon. Its surface is very close. Craters, mountains, lowlands are clearly visible.

The spacecraft will have to stay on the Moon for a long time. Special thermal insulation with a special optical coating surface, weakly absorbing solar radiation and good emitting into space "extra" heat, will help the spacecraft to endure large temperature fluctuations during the long lunar days and nights.

That was the sensation on October 4th, 1957, when all the world press printed the photo of sphere looking artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union. The Russian word "Sputnik" became well-known and international.

Orbiting the Earth, Sputnik transmitted radio signal, the famous "Beep! Beep" what can be received by many radios worldwide.

The artist was inspired by this first glorious milestone of the Soviet cosmonautics and devoted this painting to it.

It is difficult to overestimate all the opportunities that mobile lunar labs opened for us. The people will be able to properly appreciate the full significance of this step in the future, when humanity will begin the direct development and settlement of the Moon, along with the ongoing research today. Then the rovers will be widely used in the construction of scientific bases and lunar cities.