Vernadksy Challenge, one of the biggest annual startup competitions, is accepting applications for the next contest.

On December 2, the new scientific development tournament “Star Track” was held for the first time at the Noosphere Engineering School. It was a great opportunity for young scientists to exhibit their unique developments. 28 participants in 7 teams competed by presenting detailed breakdowns of their projects.

April 29-30 marked the second NASA Space Apps Challenge in Ukraine. This year the global network of host cities was expanded to the city of Dnipro thanks to Association Noosphere, founded by Max Polyakov. Team Spacer from Dnipro worked their way into the Top10 in international voting and ended up taking a prestigious 8th place.

Great minds from all over the world are overcoming real-life challenges to overcome Earth’s gravity. In recent years, the number of space explorers and businesses has risen from a trickle to a flood and shows no sign of slowing down.

On the 12th, April, the whole world celebrates International Day of Human Space Flight. On this day, humankind first dared to venture outside Earth’s atmosphere. On April 12, 1961, Yuriy Gagarin made the first orbital flight around Earth in the spaceship “Vostok”. The flight, which lasted 108 minutes, became a powerful breakthrough in space exploration. It was a scientific triumph and a milestone for all humanity, and especially for those working in the space industry.

The 2013 FAI European Championship for Model Rocketry Seniors and Juniors by appointment of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) took place from August 24th to August 30th in Kaspichan, Bulgaria. This is the sixteenth competition at the European level and was attended by 17 countries including the United States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.