Legacy
A science centre and college in Novosibirsk are dedicated to him, and the crater Kondratyuk on the Moon. A minor planet 3084 Kondratyuk discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 is named after him. Ukraine has issued postage stamps and coins bearing his image. When Neil Armstrong visited the Soviet Union after his historic flight, he collected a handful of soil from outside Kondratyuk's house in Novosibirsk to acknowledge his contribution to spaceflight.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)