Золотая антилопа / Model of the carrier rocket "proton"

large-Scale bronze replica of the Soviet carrier rocket heavy class "proton"(also called "UR-500"), designed to bring spacecraft into Earth orbit and further into space, including to carry out flights to the moon and back.

the Project of development of UR-500 had a dramatic history and was nearly closed after removing the N. With. Khrushchev from the post of Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. Despite many setbacks in the initial period of testing, but rather because of them, with the help of the carrier rocket of this type were displayed all orbital stations, USSR project "Salut-DOS", "Diamond", the modules of station "Mir" and international space stations, satellites, IS3, space stations, and spacecraft of the Soviet project on circling the moon. Missiles-carriers of this type to this day perform a large number of commercial launches, providing services for foreign companies. As of March 2016 total produced 410 launches of carrier rockets of this type, of which 363 20 successful and partially unsuccessful. Carrier rockets "proton" is able to output up to 23.5 tonnes of payload mass to a low reference orbit.

the Developer of these missiles in 1961-67 he was made by the OKB-23, now known as the State space scientific production center Khrunichev.

Art casting.

Hshdh (cm) : 12.0x1.6x1.8