NPO Saturn (НПО Сатурн) is a Russian aircraft engine manufacturer, formed from the mergers of Rybinsk and Lyul'ka-Saturn (after Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka). Saturn's engines power many former Eastern Bloc aircraft, such as the Tupolev Tu-154. Saturn holds a 50% stake in the PowerJet joint venture with Snecma. The company, founded by Pavel Aleksandrovich Soloviev, has its headquarters in the town of Rybinsk.
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“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)