The Finnish Astronautical Society is a project on the past and present of the Finnish space programme. It deals with the history of Finnish futurism, space exploration and male hobbies.
It focuses on the activities of the Finnish Astronautical Society, an organisation founded sixty years ago to advance space exploration that today mainly focuses on the launching of scale models of space rockets.
Axel Straschnoy
Kolme Perunaa Space LXXVII (2020)
Cardboard, balsa wood, PVA glue and Acrylic paint.
74 x 28 cm diametre
In 2019, the Finnish Astronautical Society turned sixty years old. To celebrate its anniversary, the Society organized a year-long programme of events that kicked off on May 19, 2019 with a rocket launch jamboree at its launch site in Ämmässuo.
Axel Straschnoy
The Finnish Astronautical Society (2019)
Documentary film
33 min.
Model rocketeers fly two kinds of rockets: everyday rockets that are used time and time again and special rockets on which they spend more time and which they only fly once or twice before saving them on their shelf.
